Re: [PATCH v2] cat-file: fix mailmap application for different author and committer

> On Fri, Jun 13, 2025 at 1:58 PM <siddharthasthana31@gmail.com> wrote:
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> [...]
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>> This bug was introduced in e9c1b0e3 (revision: improve
>> commit_rewrite_person(), 2022-07-19) when the much simpler version of
>> commit_rewrite_person() that worked on one "person header" at a time
>> was rewritten to use the current apply_mailmap_to_header() function.
>> The original implementation processed author and committer separately,
>> but the rewrite introduced this loop-based approach that failed to
>> properly handle the transition between identity lines.
>
> Thanks for adding this context and improving the `sed` invocation in
> the tests! Happy to stand behind this change too :-)