Comment 7 for bug 920757

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Soren Hansen (soren) wrote : Re: [Bug 920757] Re: 'Authors' check in run_tests.sh makes life harder for new contributers

2012/2/20 Thierry Carrez <email address hidden>:
> I suppose git log will create multiple entries for the same person using
> multiple email addresses in git commits... The .mailmap reduction
> allowed us to have a sane list. It's used for PTL election purposes, so
> it's good to have one entry = one person.
>
> Or is there another way to automagically reduce the list to current
> email addresses ?

git log already respects .mailmap (that's where I got the idea when I
wrote the implementation for the check back when we used bzr), so it
should "Just Work[tm]".