From: Emily Shaffer <nasamuffin@google.com>
Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2023 21:58:31 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mailmap: change primary address for Emily Shaffer
Message-ID: <CAJoAoZnHPUvZONv8kgb_c2HvsEXHMnLCZShOOjE+uE0ainieVA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqq5ya7jrzm.fsf@gitster.g>

On Fri, Apr 7, 2023 at 2:35 PM Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>
> emilyshaffer@google.com writes:
>
> > From:   emilyshaffer@google.com
> > Subject: [PATCH] mailmap: change primary address for Emily Shaffer
> >
> > Emily finally figured out how to set up their alias at DayJob, and would
> > prefer to use nasamuffin@google.com, partially to reduce confusion
> > between IRC and list, and partially because they just like the alias a
> > lot more.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Emily Shaffer <nasamuffin@google.com>
> > ---
> >  .mailmap | 1 +
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> Cute.  By telling the machinery to map "<emilyshaffer@google.com>"
> (with any name) to "Emily Shaffer <nasamuffin@google.com>", and
> using a nameless <emilyshaffer@google.com> as the sender for the
> mail to add such a mailmap entry, the result of applying such a
> patch, even though the underlying commit object created lacks the
> human-readable name, like so:
>
>     $ git cat-file commit HEAD
>     tree cec72ed0d4fb9faa44cd8d23008f90da3239808b
>     parent 0607f793cbe0af16aee6d2480056d891835884bd
>     author emilyshaffer@google.com <emilyshaffer@google.com> 1680902569 -0700
>     committer Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> 1680902794 -0700
>
>     mailmap: change primary address for Emily Shaffer
>     ...
>
> would show with a substituted author:
>
>     $ git show HEAD
>     commit 2485a52e4b4419020286e98dd04c0e5ebb218f06
>     Author: Emily Shaffer <nasamuffin@google.com>
>     Date:   Fri Apr 7 14:22:49 2023 -0700
>
>         mailmap: change primary address for Emily Shaffer
>         ...

Oh, yuck. I guess I'm sending nameless From: line because of
poorly-configured git-send-email settings. I'll look into it.

>
> I'll amend the commit to record the nasammuffin name instead,
> though.

Thanks muchly.

 - Emily