[Qemu-devel] [RFC] Add a .mailmap to map pre-git-conversion authors to friendly names

[Peter Maydell]

Add a .mailmap file so 'git shortlog' can map the unfriendly
pre-git-conversion author entries to real names.

Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <address@hidden>
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I've had this kicking around in my working tree for a while, but it seems
like it's more generally useful. Opinions?

 .mailmap |   20 ++++++++++++++++++++
 1 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 .mailmap

diff --git a/.mailmap b/.mailmap
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6f968d8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.mailmap
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+# This mailmap just translates the weird addresses from the original import 
into git
+# into proper addresses so that they are counted properly in git shortlog 
output.
+#
+Aurelien Jarno <address@hidden> aurel32 <address@hidden>
+Blue Swirl <address@hidden> blueswir1 <address@hidden>
+Anthony Liguori <address@hidden> aliguori <address@hidden>
+Edgar E. Iglesias <address@hidden> edgar_igl <address@hidden>
+malc <address@hidden> malc <address@hidden>
+Paul Brook <address@hidden> pbrook <address@hidden>
+Andrzej Zaborowski <address@hidden> balrog <address@hidden>
+Thiemo Seufer <address@hidden> ths <address@hidden>
+#
+# Weird addresses with no translation because they have made no commits since 
the
+# switchover to git:
+#    bellard <address@hidden>
+#    j_mayer <address@hidden>
+#
+# There is also a:
+#    (no author) <(no author)@c046a42c-6fe2-441c-8c8c-71466251a162>
+# for the cvs2svn initialization commit e63c3dc74bf.
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