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| -rw-r--r-- | contrib/gitdm/aliases | 20 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | contrib/gitdm/group-map-individuals | 3 |
2 files changed, 20 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/contrib/gitdm/aliases b/contrib/gitdm/aliases index 07fd3391a5..c1e744312f 100644 --- a/contrib/gitdm/aliases +++ b/contrib/gitdm/aliases @@ -1,6 +1,22 @@ # -# This is the email aliases file, mapping secondary addresses -# onto a single, canonical address. Duplicates some info from .mailmap +# This is the email aliases file, mapping secondary addresses onto a +# single, canonical address. It duplicates some info from .mailmap so +# if you are adding something here also consider if the .mailmap needs +# updating. +# +# If you just want to avoid gitdm complaining about author fields +# which are actually email addresses with the message: +# +# "...is an author name, probably not what you want" +# +# you can just apply --use-mailmap to you git-log command, e.g: +# +# git log --use-mailmap --numstat --since "last 2 years" | $GITDM +# +# however that will have the effect of squashing multiple addresses to +# a canonical address which will distort the stats of those who +# contribute in both personal and professional capacities from +# different addresses. # # weird commits diff --git a/contrib/gitdm/group-map-individuals b/contrib/gitdm/group-map-individuals index 05e355d30e..1c84717438 100644 --- a/contrib/gitdm/group-map-individuals +++ b/contrib/gitdm/group-map-individuals @@ -2,7 +2,8 @@ # Individual and personal contributors # # This is simply to allow prolific developers with no company -# affiliations to be grouped together in the summary stats. +# affiliations (or non-company related personal work) to be grouped +# together in the summary stats. # f4bug@amsat.org |