Hi, On Mon, 19 Jan 2009, Adeodato Simó wrote: > * Johannes Schindelin [Mon, 19 Jan 2009 14:49:39 +0100]: > > > > Ping? I realize this may be seen as a big patch dropped out of the blue, > > > but I would very much like to hear some comments on at least the feature > > > itself, which should not take more than reading the commit message. > > > And you could just as well write a script that takes the output of > > > $ git log --pretty=format:%an\ %ae --all | sort | uniq > > > and constructs a valid .mailmap. That would also have the advantage that > > you do not need to perform the analysis each time you call Git. > > No, not really. As mentioned in the commit message, .mailmap files don't > help when you invoke shortlog with -e, and different email addresses for > an author are involved. Well, the whole point of -e is that you want to see the email addresses, too. So I am not really convinced it would be a good idea to mangle them. But hey, I only expressed a personal opinion; If you can convince others, you still might bring that feature in. You'll have to convince them, though. Ciao, Dscho
