[U-Boot] [U-Boot, v2, 2/3] scripts: add mailmapper, a tool to create/update mailmap file

[Tom Rini]

On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 05:49:45PM +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote:

> This tool helps to create/update the mailmap file.
> 
> It runs 'git shortlog' internally and searches differently spelled author
> names which share the same email address. The author name with the most
> commits is asuumed to be a canonical real name. If the number of commits
> from the cananonical name is equal to or greater than 'MIN_COMMITS' (=50),
> the entry for the cananical name will be output. ('MIN_COMMITS' is used
> here because we do not want to create a fat mailmap by adding every author
> with only a few commits.)
> 
> If there exists a mailmap file specified by the mailmap.file configuration
> options or '.mailmap' at the toplevel of the repository, it is used as
> a base file.
> 
> The base file and the newly added entries are merged together and sorted
> alphabetically (but the comment block is kept untouched), and then printed
> to standard output.
> 
>  Usage
>  -----
> 
>   scripts/mailmapper
> 
> prints the mailmapping to standard output.
> 
>   scripts/mailmapper > tmp; mv tmp .mailmap
> 
> will be useful for updating '.mailmap' file.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.m at jp.panasonic.com>

Applied to u-boot/master, thanks!

-- 
Tom
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