On 2024.08.13 14:45, Jacob Keller wrote: > From: Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@xxxxxxxxx> > > Git has support for a mailmap file which translates author and committer > names and email addresses to canonical values. > > Git log has log.mailmap, and the associated --mailmap and --use-mailmap > options. > > Teach git format-patch the format.mailmap and --mailmap options so that > formatting a patch can also reflect the canonical values from the > mailmap file. > > Reported-by: Anthony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@xxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@xxxxxxxxx> I am not sure I understand the utility here; using mailmap at log time makes sense because these are old, established commits that may have outdated contact information. But when writing patches with format-patch, presumably these are still somewhat WIP patches. Is it not better to just reset the author information before running git-format-patch in this case? If I've misunderstood the use case, please let me know.
