[PATCH] Describe how to generate .mailmap automatically using "git log"
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@@ -72,3 +72,13 @@ Santa Claus <santa.claus@northpole.xx> <me@company.xx>
Use hash '#' for comments that are either on their own line, or after
the email address.
+
+If most of your commits lack proper author names (as will be the case
+if your repository was generated by linkgit:git-svn[1]), you can
+generate most of a correct `.mailmap` automatically like this:
+
+------------
+git log "--pretty=%an <%ae>" | sort | uniq > .mailmap
+------------
+
+You will then have to edit the file to add the proper author names.
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