From: Eric Hanchrow Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 17:40:40 GMT Subject: [PATCH] Describe how to generate .mailmap automatically using "git log" Message-ID: <70F0BA8D5F15094CBC8B7F2E4BBCD9B52772BF72@corp-mail-1> --- Documentation/mailmap.txt | 10 ++++++++++ 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/mailmap.txt b/Documentation/mailmap.txt index 288f04e..ae62669 100644 --- a/Documentation/mailmap.txt +++ b/Documentation/mailmap.txt @@ -72,3 +72,13 @@ Santa Claus 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. -- 1.6.3.rc0.146.gd07d5