From: Petr Baudis Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2005 21:54:12 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] Support for passing path to custom map in git-shortlog.perl Message-ID: <20051107215412.GU1431@pasky.or.cz> In-Reply-To: <7vek5twc3u.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Dear diary, on Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 01:11:33AM CET, I got a letter where Junio C Hamano told me that... > Petr Baudis writes: > > > Aside of looking into .mailmap, add support for -m MAPFILE. > > I thought about this when I did .mailmap because I felt > the more flexibility the better, but wouldn't maintaining the > project-wide .mailmap as part of the project easier to manage? Ok, I'm not a die-hard proponent of this change (the genesis is that it comes from the ages before .mailmap was supported and was originally coupled with -n which disabled the internal mappings - but then .mailmap got supported, I deemed -n useless but this still seemed worth something so I passed it along), but I think it can be useful - either when you want to work on readonly tree, or when you want to support custom mailmap in addition to the default project's one without interference... *shrug* -- Petr "Pasky" Baudis Stuff: http://pasky.or.cz/ VI has two modes: the one in which it beeps and the one in which it doesn't.