[PATCH v4 1/3] log: use mailmap by default

From: Ariadne Conill <ariadne@dereferenced.org>
Date: Jul 11, 2019, 18:37 UTC
Message-ID: <20190711183727.8058-2-ariadne@dereferenced.org>
In-Reply-To: <20190711183727.8058-1-ariadne@dereferenced.org>

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.

Signed-off-by: Ariadne Conill <ariadne@dereferenced.org>
---
 builtin/log.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/builtin/log.c b/builtin/log.c
index 7c8767d3bc..3d2ce8fa3d 100644
--- a/builtin/log.c
+++ b/builtin/log.c
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ static int default_follow;
 static int default_show_signature;
 static int decoration_style;
 static int decoration_given;
-static int use_mailmap_config;
+static int use_mailmap_config = 1;
 static const char *fmt_patch_subject_prefix = "PATCH";
 static const char *fmt_pretty;

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