From: Junio C Hamano Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2012 18:48:10 GMT Subject: Re: Use of a mailmap file with git-log Message-ID: <7v38zdbv6d.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: Rich Midwinter writes: > 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.