[PATCH v4 0/2] improve mailmap file

[Thomas Monjalon]

20/10/2025 16:08, Bruce Richardson:
> The mailmap file in DPDK is not always correctly sorted, and standard
> cmdline sorting tools don't always do the job correctly. To improve
> things, add a new script to devtools for working with the mailmap file,
> to make it easier to add new entries in the correct place, to check the
> file for correctness, and lastly to sort the file in place (hopefully a
> one-off operation).
> 
> Once that is done, commit the changes to the mailmap file to ensure it
> is correctly sorted in the repository.
> 
> V4: minor changes based on more feedback:
>  - sort imports alphabetically
>  - remove unused "operations" map
> 
> V3:
> * feedback from Robin's review:
>   - used builtin type annotations
>     - used argparse subparsers and callbacks for individual commands
>     * re-sorted latest mailmap in patch 2
> 
> V2:
> * address multiple feedback items on V1.
> * fix bug whereby adding an extra actually sorted the whole file
> 
> Bruce Richardson (2):
>   devtools/mailmap_ctl: script to work with mailmap
>   mailmap: sort mailmap
> 
>  .mailmap                | 356 ++++++++++++++++++++--------------------
>  devtools/mailmap_ctl.py | 209 +++++++++++++++++++++++

For consistency, it should be named devtools/mailmap-ctl.py

Applied with this minor change, thanks.