From: Cédric Bosdonnat <cedricbosdo@openoffice.org>
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2011 08:45:25 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: Documented the funky email address alias feature
X-Git-Url: http://xenbits.xensource.com/gitweb?a=commitdiff_plain;h=c1f096042b9eb22da2c1e796101741e8d22c0875;p=people%2Flarsk%2Fxenproject-org-gitdm.git

Documented the funky email address alias feature

logs containing weird email addresses like this can be handled in the
aliases file to remap them to a correct address.
   "joe.hacker@acme.org <Joe Hacker>

Added some documentation in the README file for this
---

diff --git a/README b/README
index 9a3b03f..26cf81f 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -85,6 +85,15 @@ EmailAliases file
 	Any patches originating from alias@address will be treated as if
 	they had come from canonical@address.
 
+    It may happen that some people set their git user data in the
+    following form: "joe.hacker@acme.org <Joe Hacker>". The 
+    "Joe Hacker" is then considered as the email... but gitdm says
+    it is a "Funky" email. An alias line in the following form can
+    be used to alias these commits aliased to the correct email
+    address:
+
+        "Joe Hacker" joe.hacker@acme.org
+
 
 EmailMap file