On Fri, Dec 07, 2018 at 02:22:25PM -0800, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > 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. I just had to cc Brandon and manually look up his email address, which made me wonder what ever happened to this patch. :) FWIW, I also use mailmap to find contact email addresses, with: $ git help who 'who' is aliased to '!sh -c 'git --no-pager log -1 --format="%an <%aE>" --author="$1" -i' -' So lacking another such registry, I'd like to add my support for using mailmap for this purpose. -Peff
