Re: using the mailmap file?

[Reinhold Kainhofer]

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On Wednesday 24 March 2010 18:44:48 Patrick McCarty wrote:
> On 2010-03-24, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote:
> > We have a sort-of nice mailmap file, can this be
> > used to rewrite author names/email addresses?
> >
> > I'm running it from git format-branch, so I'd
> > need something that takes GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL
> > and GIT_AUTHOR_NAME and returns the unified
> > pair.
> 
> You could use it to rewrite author *names*, but probably not the email
> addresses, since the .mailmap is primarily used to fix the output of
> `git shortlog'.

Yes, unfortunately only for shortlog :(
However, what you might do is to simply use the first email (or at least to 
check which absolutely broken emails we have in the repository that you might 
want to replace, like "address@hidden(none)" ). Of course, for this you need to 
go through the mailcap manually rather than automatically...

Cheers,
Reinhold

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