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From: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
To: "L. E. Segovia" <amy@amyspark.me>
Cc: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [BUG] git format-patch incorrectly follows the mailmap when used with --cover-letter
Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2022 20:26:23 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Y2MKr2Yga/o1sjun@nand.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <527f8050-7955-50b1-304c-617703cf99e6@amyspark.me>

On Wed, Nov 02, 2022 at 09:21:12PM -0300, L. E. Segovia wrote:
> Hey,
>
> The shortlog in the cover letter follows the active mailmap (incorrectly).

You say "incorrectly", but this is subjective, no?

I imagine that most (?) users of format-patch do want to respect the
mailmap when generating a shortlog. In fact, the 'git shortlog' builtin
doesn't even have a `--[no-]mailmap` option, either.

> The letter itself (From: header), as well as the patches, are attributed
> correctly.

OK.

Thanks,
Taylor

      reply	other threads:[~2022-11-03  0:26 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
2022-11-03  0:21   ` L. E. Segovia
2022-11-03  0:26     ` Taylor Blau [this message]

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