On Fri, Jun 21, 2019 at 11:34:06PM +0200, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: > >> This topic was discussed at the last git contributor summit (brought up > >> by CB Bailey) resulting in this patch, which I see didn't make it in & > >> needs to be resurrected again: > >> https://public-inbox.org/git/20181212171052.13415-1-cb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/ > > > > Thanks for the link. > > > > I didn't know about config options for mailmap.file and log.mailmap > > before. These do make this option much more useful, especially when we > > can insert default settings for them into /etc/gitconfig across the > > company. > > Right, and to the extent that we don't --use-mailmap by default I think > that's mainly because nobody's cared enough to advocate for it. I think > it would be a sensible default. That was this patch: https://public-inbox.org/git/20181213120940.26477-1-cb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/ There were no objections so I was going to re-propose it but I haven't got around to this for a number of reasons, many of which are not Git related. Ideally, I wanted to fix all of the known issues with mailmap such as some behaviors of shortlog fixed with the shortlog patch above. I also noticed some more artifacts that I would like to be fixed. In particular the RFC 822 style "trailers" should be rewritten by default. Having something like this pop up is not likely to be acceptable in a project which uses trailers: commit abcd... Author: Bob <bob@...> important commit message Signed-off-by: Alice <alice@...? Obviously it's virtually impossible to account for everything such as someone referencing Bob by their deadname in the free text body of a historical commit. CB
