Re: Bug in .mailmap handling?

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Stefan Beller <stefanbeller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> 	# Adding the line to the mailmap should make life easy, so we know
> 	# it's the same person
> 	echo "A <A@xxxxxxxxxxx> <changed_email@xxxxxxxxxxx>" > .mailmap

While I was looking at this, I noticed this piece of code:

diff --git a/mailmap.c b/mailmap.c
index 2a7b366..418081e 100644
--- a/mailmap.c
+++ b/mailmap.c
@@ -122,7 +122,7 @@ static char *parse_name_and_email(char *buffer, char **name,
 	while (nend > nstart && isspace(*nend))
 		--nend;
 
-	*name = (nstart < nend ? nstart : NULL);
+	*name = (nstart <= nend ? nstart : NULL);
 	*email = left+1;
 	*(nend+1) = '\0';
 	*right++ = '\0';

The function is given a buffer "A <A@xxxxxxxxxxx>...", nstart scans
from the beginning of the buffer, skipping whitespaces (there isn't
any, so nstart points at the buffer), while nend starts from one
byte before the first '<' and skips whitespaces backwards and ends
at the first non-whitespace (i.e. it hits "A" at the beginning of
the buffer).  nstart == nend in this case for a single-letter name,
and an off-by-one error makes it fail to pick up the name, which
makes the entry equivalent to

	<A@xxxxxxxxxxx> <changed_email@xxxxxxxxxxx>

without the name.  I do not think this bug affected anything you
observed, though.

> 	git shortlog -sne
> 		 1  A <A@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> 		 1  A <a@xxxxxxxxxxx>

This is coming from mailmap.c::add_mapping() that downcases the
e-mail address.

changed_email@xxxxxxxxxxx is mapped to a@xxxxxxxxxxx because of this
downcasing, while "A <A@xxxxxxxxxxx>" does not have any entry for it
in the .mailmap file, so it is given back as-is.  Hence we see two
distinct entries.

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