Re: [PATCH 2/2] revision: handle argv movement in parse_revision_opt()

["Kristoffer Haugsbakk" <kristofferhaugsbakk@fastmail.com>]

 On Mon, Sep 28, 2026, at 05:25, Jeff King wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 26, 2026 at 11:00:05AM +0200, Kristoffer Haugsbakk wrote:
>> I ought to send in a `.mailmap` change with my canonical email address.
>
> We don't mailmap trailers, though. [...]

Yes, that’s the reason. There’s no dynamic remapping after the fact. But
with a mailmap entry you can ask git-check-mailmap(1) if you have the
correct entry while writing or normalizing the commit.

I had use for that once when I was collecting `Reported-by`. One report
was from three years prior. But in the meantime, this person had changed
their address. But they had recorded it in the `.mailmap`.

But for such a normalization to be workable at all I would have to try
to add something like `--evaluate-all-cmds` to git-interpret-
trailers(1). Because `trailer.<key-alias>.cmd` will not evaluate trailer
values if it is just reading in a file without any `--trailer` options
(as well).

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Which is an itch that no one else has to care about.