Re: [PATCH] log: use mailmap by default

From: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Date: Jul 11, 2019, 15:19 UTC
Message-ID: <20190711151900.GI9224@genre.crustytoothpaste.net>
In-Reply-To: <20190711081958.2201-1-ariadne@dereferenced.org>

On 2019-07-11 at 08:19:58, Ariadne Conill wrote:

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> The `git log` command shows the author and committer name recorded in
> the git repository itself, while other commands respect `.mailmap`
> by default.  I believe this is a bad design: it causes log entries to
> reflect inaccurate information: anyone who changes their name or
> e-mail address will not have that change (recorded in mailmap file)
> reflected when using `git log` by default.
> 
> Anyone who explicitly wants the current behaviour can clearly request
> it by setting the `log.mailmap` setting to `false` in their
> `.gitconfig` file.

While I'm in favor of using the mailmap by default, typically we want a way people can override a default setting from the command line.

So in this case, we have "--use-mailmap", but we don't have a "--no-use-mailmap" (at least, it's not documented in the manpage). I think we'd want to add such an option so that people can set it if they need non-default behavior.

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