Commit 2824a366 authored by Kees Cook's avatar Kees Cook Committed by Jonathan Corbet

mailmap: Update comments for with format and more detalis

Without having first read the git-shortlog man-page, the format
of .mailmap may not be immediately obvious. Add comments with pointers
to the man-page, along with other details.
Signed-off-by: default avatarKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/202008080013.58EBD83@keescookSigned-off-by: default avatarJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
parent 502b6750
...@@ -2,11 +2,16 @@ ...@@ -2,11 +2,16 @@
# This list is used by git-shortlog to fix a few botched name translations # This list is used by git-shortlog to fix a few botched name translations
# in the git archive, either because the author's full name was messed up # in the git archive, either because the author's full name was messed up
# and/or not always written the same way, making contributions from the # and/or not always written the same way, making contributions from the
# same person appearing not to be so or badly displayed. # same person appearing not to be so or badly displayed. Also allows for
# old email addresses to map to new email addresses.
# #
# For format details, see "MAPPING AUTHORS" in "man git-shortlog".
#
# Please keep this list dictionary sorted.
#
# This comment is parsed by git-shortlog:
# repo-abbrev: /pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ # repo-abbrev: /pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/
# #
Aaron Durbin <adurbin@google.com> Aaron Durbin <adurbin@google.com>
Adam Oldham <oldhamca@gmail.com> Adam Oldham <oldhamca@gmail.com>
Adam Radford <aradford@gmail.com> Adam Radford <aradford@gmail.com>
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