[PATCH] mailmap: sort entries

Bruce Richardson bruce.richardson at intel.com
Tue Jul 15 09:42:57 CEST 2025


On Mon, Jul 14, 2025 at 01:45:14PM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> The lines in .mailmap are supposed to be sorted, they have
> gotten out of order over time.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen at networkplumber.org>
> ---
>  .mailmap | 70 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------------------
>  1 file changed, 35 insertions(+), 35 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/.mailmap b/.mailmap
> index c7d55c7386..0be4d883c9 100644
> --- a/.mailmap
> +++ b/.mailmap
> @@ -48,7 +48,6 @@ Aleksey Baulin <aleksey.baulin at gmail.com>
>  Aleksey Katargin <gureedo at gmail.com>
>  Ales Musil <amusil at redhat.com>
>  Alessio Igor Bogani <alessio.bogani at elettra.eu>
> -Alex Chapman <alex.chapman at arm.com>
>  Alexander Bechikov <asb.tyum at gmail.com>
>  Alexander Belyakov <abelyako at gmail.com>
>  Alexander Chernavin <achernavin at netgate.com>
> @@ -59,6 +58,7 @@ Alexander Skorichenko <askorichenko at netgate.com>
>  Alexander Solganik <solganik at gmail.com>
>  Alexander V Gutkin <alexander.v.gutkin at intel.com>
>  Alexandre Ferrieux <alexandre.ferrieux at orange.com>
> +Alex Chapman <alex.chapman at arm.com>
>  Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik at ozlabs.ru>
>  Alex Kiselev <alex at bisonrouter.com> <alex at therouter.net>
>  Alex Marginean <alexandru.marginean at nxp.com>

Nak for this particular form of sorting.
The various "Alex"s should appear before the "Alexander"s, since the fist
names should be compared alone before the second name comparisons start.

/Bruce


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