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From: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
To: "L. E. Segovia" <amy@amyspark.me>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [BUG] git format-patch incorrectly follows the mailmap when used with --cover-letter
Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2022 20:09:44 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Y2MGyM3O7ljEZ4Hm@nand.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cb90779b-edb0-1911-c8bd-a6c56203a201@amyspark.me>

On Wed, Nov 02, 2022 at 08:54:32PM -0300, L. E. Segovia wrote:
> What did you expect to happen? (Expected behavior)
>
> The cover letter should have tallied my commits and associate them with
> the current repository's user.name value.
>
> What happened instead? (Actual behavior)
>
> The cover letter follows my active mailmap and applies it when tallying
> the commits. There is no way to tell it not to.

Are you referring to the shortlog in the cover letter, the patches
themselves, or both?

As you note, there is no '--[no-]mailmap' option in format-patch, though
implementing one should be relatively straightforward.

Thanks,
Taylor

  reply	other threads:[~2022-11-03  0:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-11-02 23:54 [BUG] git format-patch incorrectly follows the mailmap when used with --cover-letter L. E. Segovia
2022-11-03  0:09 ` Taylor Blau [this message]
2022-11-03  0:21   ` L. E. Segovia
2022-11-03  0:26     ` Taylor Blau

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