| commit | 4e168333a8716d902aed10c74ae5e408e683f902 | [log] [tgz] |
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| author | Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> | Tue Jan 12 21:18:06 2021 +0100 |
| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | Tue Jan 12 14:04:42 2021 -0800 |
| tree | 483cda75b58639cefccf9aebf8fc5d17cd6677bc | |
| parent | 238803cb409930a9cbbe911917b28817d182330e [diff] |
shortlog: remove unused(?) "repo-abbrev" feature
Remove support for the magical "repo-abbrev" comment in .mailmap
files. This was added to .mailmap parsing in [1], as a generalized
feature of the git-shortlog Perl script added earlier in [2].
There was no documentation or tests for this feature, and I don't
think it's used in practice anymore.
What it did was to allow you to specify a single string to be
search-replaced with "/.../" in the .mailmap file. E.g. for
linux.git's current .mailmap:
git archive --remote=git@gitlab.com:linux-kernel/linux.git \
HEAD -- .mailmap | grep -a repo-abbrev
# repo-abbrev: /pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/
Then when running e.g.:
git shortlog --merges --author=Linus -1 v5.10-rc7..v5.10 | grep Merge
We'd emit (the [...] is mine):
Merge tag [...]git://git.kernel.org/.../tip/tip
But will now emit:
Merge tag [...]git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
I think at this point this is just a historical artifact we can get
rid of. It was initially meant for Linus's own use when we integrated
the Perl script[2], but since then it seems he's stopped using it.
Digging through Linus's release announcements on the LKML[3] the last
release I can find that made use of this output is Linux 2.6.25-rc6
back in March 2008[4]. Later on Linus started using --no-merges[5],
and nowadays seems to prefer some custom not-quite-shortlog format of
merges from lieutenants[6].
You will still see it on linux.git if you run "git shortlog" manually
yourself with --merges, with this removed you can still get the same
output with:
git log --pretty=fuller v5.10-rc7..v5.10 |
sed 's!/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/!/.../!g' |
git shortlog
Arguably we should do the same for the search-replacing of "[PATCH]"
at the beginning with "". That seems to be another relic of a bygone
era when linux.git patches would have their E-Mail subject lines
applied as-is by "git am" or whatever. But we documented that feature
in "git-shortlog(1)", and it seems more widely applicable than
something purely kernel-specific.
1. 7595e2ee6ef (git-shortlog: make common repository prefix
configurable with .mailmap, 2006-11-25)
2. fa375c7f1b6 (Add git-shortlog perl script, 2005-06-04)
3. https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/
4. https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/alpine.LFD.1.00.0803161651350.3020@woody.linux-foundation.org/
5. https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/BANLkTinrbh7Xi27an3uY7pDWrNKhJRYmEA@mail.gmail.com/
6. https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wg1+kf1AVzXA-RQX0zjM6t9J2Kay9xyuNqcFHWV-y5ZYw@mail.gmail.com/
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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