From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 1/4] Add log.mailmap as configurational option for mailmap location Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2009 12:22:22 -0800 Message-ID: <7v63jod475.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <565c86bdbc8d6303d7d468fa196fb54ff7bd2352.1233819451.git.marius@trolltech.com> <7vljskeq21.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <498B3F24.6080305@trolltech.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Marius Storm-Olsen X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Feb 05 21:24:04 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LVAlQ-0006gU-Aj for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Thu, 05 Feb 2009 21:23:56 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756090AbZBEUWa (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Feb 2009 15:22:30 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756083AbZBEUWa (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Feb 2009 15:22:30 -0500 Received: from a-sasl-quonix.sasl.smtp.pobox.com ([208.72.237.25]:40723 "EHLO sasl.smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755251AbZBEUW3 (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Feb 2009 15:22:29 -0500 Received: from localhost.localdomain (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by b-sasl-quonix.sasl.smtp.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9777B2A81B; Thu, 5 Feb 2009 15:22:27 -0500 (EST) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [68.225.240.211]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by b-sasl-quonix.sasl.smtp.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id BDFE52A818; Thu, 5 Feb 2009 15:22:24 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <498B3F24.6080305@trolltech.com> (Marius Storm-Olsen's message of "Thu, 05 Feb 2009 20:33:56 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: B4EE84B0-F3C2-11DD-947A-6F7C8D1D4FD0-77302942!a-sasl-quonix.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Marius Storm-Olsen writes: > Given that in total shortlog, blame, log, diff-tree, rev-list, show > and whatchanged use it (the latter 5 through the pretty option), I'm > tempted to say that it justifies its own option (mailmap.file?); but > it would still have to be handled by git_default_config(). Renaming it > would give it stronger reason to *be there* though. We are in total agreement then ;-) I also agree that it would be a good idea to introduce a shared documentlet similar to pretty-format.txt that can be included in the documentation pages of commands that use this name-rewriting mechanism.