Hi, Stefan Beller wrote: > What would be more of interest is why we'd be interested in this patch > as there is no commit/patch sent by Brandon with this email in gits history. I think there's an implicit assumption in this question that isn't spelled out. Do I understand correctly that you're saying the main purpose of .mailmap is to figure out whether two commits are by the same author? My own uses of .mailmap primarily have a different purpose: to find out the preferred contact address for the author of a given commit. Thanks, Jonathan