Hello, On Thu, Jul 11, 2019 at 10:19 AM brian m. carlson <sandals@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 2019-07-11 at 08:19:58, Ariadne Conill wrote: > > The `git log` command shows the author and committer name recorded in > > the git repository itself, while other commands respect `.mailmap` > > by default. I believe this is a bad design: it causes log entries to > > reflect inaccurate information: anyone who changes their name or > > e-mail address will not have that change (recorded in mailmap file) > > reflected when using `git log` by default. > > > > Anyone who explicitly wants the current behaviour can clearly request > > it by setting the `log.mailmap` setting to `false` in their > > `.gitconfig` file. > > While I'm in favor of using the mailmap by default, typically we want a > way people can override a default setting from the command line. > > So in this case, we have "--use-mailmap", but we don't have a > "--no-use-mailmap" (at least, it's not documented in the manpage). I > think we'd want to add such an option so that people can set it if they > need non-default behavior. I agree that there is probably some useful reasons to have this option, so I can add an option that forces mailmap usage off to supplement the --use-mailmap option. It's no problem. I will generate a new patch series in a few minutes. Thanks for reviewing! Ariadne
