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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Marius Storm-Olsen <marius@trolltech.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] Add log.mailmap as configurational option for mailmap location
Date: Sun, 01 Feb 2009 19:01:48 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vwsc9o82r.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: ce94ea88e3182e97997c23f71e184e0db64fa708.1233520945.git.marius@trolltech.com

Marius Storm-Olsen <marius@trolltech.com> writes:

> This allows us to override a repo mailmap file, or to use
> mailmap files elsewhere than the repository root.

I think the new feature is not so well conceived.

Should it always be a wholesale override, or should it also support
augmenting the repository version with a private copy?

> diff --git a/builtin-blame.c b/builtin-blame.c
> index aae14ef..4b63775 100644
> --- a/builtin-blame.c
> +++ b/builtin-blame.c
> @@ -2394,7 +2394,7 @@ parse_done:
>  		die("reading graft file %s failed: %s",
>  		    revs_file, strerror(errno));
>  
> -	read_mailmap(&mailmap, ".mailmap", NULL);
> +	read_mailmap(&mailmap, NULL, NULL);

Your callers always seem to pass NULL for the second argument.  Doesn't it
make a lot more sense to get rid of it?

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-02-02  3:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-02-01 20:59 [PATCH v2 0/4] Extend mailmap functionality Marius Storm-Olsen
2009-02-01 20:59 ` [PATCH v2 1/4] Add log.mailmap as configurational option for mailmap location Marius Storm-Olsen
2009-02-01 20:59   ` [PATCH v2 2/4] Add find_insert_index, insert_at_index and clear_func functions to string_list Marius Storm-Olsen
2009-02-01 20:59     ` [PATCH v2 3/4] Add map_user() and clear_mailmap() to mailmap Marius Storm-Olsen
2009-02-01 20:59       ` [PATCH v2 4/4] Change current mailmap usage to do matching on both name and email of author/committer Marius Storm-Olsen
2009-02-02  3:03     ` [PATCH v2 2/4] Add find_insert_index, insert_at_index and clear_func functions to string_list Junio C Hamano
2009-02-02  7:49       ` Marius Storm-Olsen
2009-02-02  3:01   ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2009-02-02  7:48     ` [PATCH v2 1/4] Add log.mailmap as configurational option for mailmap location Marius Storm-Olsen
2009-02-02  7:56       ` Junio C Hamano
2009-02-02  8:26         ` Marius Storm-Olsen
2009-02-02  8:40           ` Junio C Hamano
2009-02-02  3:03 ` [PATCH v2 0/4] Extend mailmap functionality Junio C Hamano
2009-02-02  5:26   ` Sverre Rabbelier
2009-02-02  8:07   ` Marius Storm-Olsen

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