From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2005 22:44:25 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Support for passing path to custom map in git-shortlog.perl
Message-ID: <7vr79sqdrq.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <20051107215412.GU1431@pasky.or.cz>

Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz> writes:

> ... I think it can be useful - either when you
> want to work on readonly tree, or when you want to support custom
> mailmap in addition to the default project's one without interference...

Ah, that sort of makes sense.  On the other hand you could run
git-shortlog in a separate directory right now by piping the
git-log output to "(cd somewhere && git-shortlog)", so...

Come to think of it, why not make git-shortlog take the same set
of parameters as git-log takes (perhaps except --pretty)?  Then 
the issues you raised starts to make sense and we would
certainly want -m MAPFILE option there.