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Re: Use of a mailmap file with git-log

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Dec 10, 2012, 18:48 UTC
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Rich Midwinter <rich.midwinter@gmail.com> writes:
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> I'm working on a project for a large organisation that wants to make
> widespread use of git and the mailmap feature.
>
> This seems to be supported by default in git-shortlog but not git-log
> (and other variants) without specifying custom formats, which isn't
> really something I want to try and 'fix' across the organisation. Is
> there a reason for this feature omission or has it just evolved that
> way and could it be fixed?

I think it was pretty much the latter, but people may already be depending on the command to give them the "true as recorded back then" names in the output. A fix may have to involve inventing a new option "log --use-mailmap" that is explicitly given from the command line.

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