Git uses the .mailmap file to map author and committer names and email
addresses to canonical real names and email addresses.
Before adding this file, coreboot shows 1388 different author names and
email addresses because of typos, people changing email addresses, and
spelling their names differently.
After adding the file, the number of authors is down to 1016.
I tried to determine the best email address for each person by looking
at what they'd used most recently, but I can't promise that I correctly
picked the right address for everyone. Please take a look to make
sure that your email address and name is correct.
To enable .mailmap parsing globally, use:
$ git config --global log.mailmap true
To enable it just for a single log, run:
$ git log --use-mailmap
Signed-off-by: Martin Roth <gaumless@gmail.com>
Change-Id: I1f9b9bccc9322799234475a1cebf9808edd25693
Reviewed-on: https://review.coreboot.org/c/coreboot/+/61725
Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins) <no-reply@coreboot.org>
Reviewed-by: Elyes Haouas <ehaouas@noos.fr>
Reviewed-by: Patrick Georgi <patrick@coreboot.org>
Martin Roth