From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2021 22:16:40 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mailmap: only look for .mailmap in work tree
Message-ID: <xmqq5z30zy2f.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAPig+cSdTCYV=2OMEZTqahrfBypaHeD40ToMFJ1zbRNpkiPbYw@mail.gmail.com>

Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> writes:

> On Tue, Feb 9, 2021 at 12:31 PM Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
>> Subject: [PATCH] mailmap: only look for .mailmap in work tree
>> [...]
>> Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
>> ---
>> diff --git a/Documentation/git-shortlog.txt b/Documentation/git-shortlog.txt
>> @@ -113,6 +113,10 @@ MAPPING AUTHORS
>> +Note that if `git shortlog` is run outside of a repository (to process
>> +log contents on stdin), it will look for a `.mailmap` file in the
>> +current directory.
>
> Elsewhere in this same document, techy-jargon "stdin" is spelled out
> fully as "standard input".

Good point.