Re: [PATCH v6 0/4] Add support for mailmap in cat-file

> On Mon, Jul 25, 2022 at 8:58 PM Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>> Siddharth Asthana <siddharthasthana31@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>> > Changes in v6:
>> > - The function rewrite_ident_line() returns the difference between the
>> >   new and the old length of the ident line. We were not using this
>> >   information and instead parsing the buffer again to look for the line
>> >   ending. This patch set starts using that information to update the
>> >   buf_offset value in commit_rewrite_person().
>> > - This patch set also tweaks the commit_rewrite_person() so that it is
>> >   easier to understand and avoids unnecessary parsing of the buffer
>> >   wherever possible.
>> >
>> > Siddharth Asthana (4):
>> >   revision: improve commit_rewrite_person()
>> >   ident: move commit_rewrite_person() to ident.c
>> >   ident: rename commit_rewrite_person() to apply_mailmap_to_header()
>> >   cat-file: add mailmap support
>> >
>> >  Documentation/git-cat-file.txt |  6 +++
>> >  builtin/cat-file.c             | 43 +++++++++++++++++++-
>> >  cache.h                        |  6 +++
>> >  ident.c                        | 74 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>> >  revision.c                     | 50 ++---------------------
>> >  t/t4203-mailmap.sh             | 59 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>> >  6 files changed, 190 insertions(+), 48 deletions(-)
>>
>> I haven't seen any comments or objections to this round.  Are people
>> happy about it going forward?  I am planning to merge it to 'next'
>> and down to 'master' soonish.
>
> I am biased, but I am happy with the current state of this patch
> series. During the last versions of this patch series there were only
> comments related to the first patch in the series (revision: improve
> commit_rewrite_person()). It seems to me that they were all properly
> taken into account, and that the code in that patch is now correct and
> relatively simple to understand.