From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: Use of a mailmap file with git-log Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2012 10:48:10 -0800 Message-ID: <7v38zdbv6d.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Rich Midwinter X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Dec 10 19:48:36 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ti8P1-0003qi-MI for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Mon, 10 Dec 2012 19:48:32 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751528Ab2LJSsO (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Dec 2012 13:48:14 -0500 Received: from b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com ([208.72.237.35]:39507 "EHLO smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751525Ab2LJSsN (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Dec 2012 13:48:13 -0500 Received: from smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7B339654; Mon, 10 Dec 2012 13:48:12 -0500 (EST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; s=sasl; bh=znK03El4G4ECV95ecuZJNg9lxiE=; b=MXgBN+ W0WCehwSiEWwHS9ogzk/YBNY613tZ99lf80HctQ05k7tnezIkEM2mFuY9zxtRJcX e0nH70S8wSvS+r13OQo93/r5a8WZ1bZ9d92M8JZE7rkK+AkVvAhv2xBWNqpuE1zp yYar2/a38LYhM6m8F0a14Jh9NQ/rFY6Q5VxKs= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; q=dns; s=sasl; b=VmhTZZc8oX22N/IHtzo6DTKFcG1LPW51 DrsAgTV45tF/jscPleD+unzl/L7OBPhUQRXwjuaLKGlOD1o+7l9CD+RgszHsMYY/ ovkhSnyDSgL+/d/30ws+Z9w/BeuiswmH4sLvdBahlzjE8nIz2RZHTBH4GECA2HIJ rOsdEVuuxQY= Received: from b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4C9E9653; Mon, 10 Dec 2012 13:48:12 -0500 (EST) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [98.234.214.94]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 4596F9651; Mon, 10 Dec 2012 13:48:12 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (Rich Midwinter's message of "Mon, 10 Dec 2012 18:22:49 +0000") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 26187576-42FA-11E2-9A5E-995F2E706CDE-77302942!b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Rich Midwinter writes: > I'm working on a project for a large organisation that wants to make > widespread use of git and the mailmap feature. > > This seems to be supported by default in git-shortlog but not git-log > (and other variants) without specifying custom formats, which isn't > really something I want to try and 'fix' across the organisation. Is > there a reason for this feature omission or has it just evolved that > way and could it be fixed? I think it was pretty much the latter, but people may already be depending on the command to give them the "true as recorded back then" names in the output. A fix may have to involve inventing a new option "log --use-mailmap" that is explicitly given from the command line.