From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2012 20:16:14 GMT
Subject: Re: Use of a mailmap file with git-log
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Antoine Pelisse <apelisse@gmail.com> writes:

> It could indeed be very interesting to have mailmap applied to git-log and
> especially to git-log --author/--committer.
> ...
> The choice of parse_commit_buffer to do the modification is due to
> the grepping being done directly on buffer when grepping author/committerer.

For pattern matching, I think revision.c::commit_match() is probably
the right place to do this kind of thing.  I just noticed that we
grep for the string inside a raw buffer, even when "encoding" is
specified, which I think is a bug.