From: Junio C Hamano Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2018 00:00:58 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] .mailmap: record canonical email address for Sven Strickroth Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20181120215803.GA149929@google.com> Jonathan Nieder writes: >> +Sven Strickroth > > Is the above line needed? It's not clear to me from the commit message > what it does. Stare at it once again and you'll see ;-) FWIW I needed to do that myself before you had the same issue. Sven is trying to hide real-name name and have a bland token that would leave the least amount of impression to the recipients there instead, i.e. "email@add.re.ss".