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([2a0a:ef40:627:1f01:b22b:2092:b7ed:c8f5]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id 5b1f17b1804b1-4801e879537sm304836025e9.5.2026.01.21.02.43.53 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Wed, 21 Jan 2026 02:43:54 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2026 10:43:53 +0000 Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Reply-To: phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk Subject: Re: [PATCH] mailmap: add an entry for Phillip Wood To: Jeff King , Junio C Hamano Cc: Kristoffer Haugsbakk , Phillip Wood , Git Mailing List References: <5a4e7da4-d295-4beb-9f37-b2ce4e10df35@app.fastmail.com> <20260120192424.GA3295894@coredump.intra.peff.net> From: Phillip Wood Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: <20260120192424.GA3295894@coredump.intra.peff.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 20/01/2026 19:24, Jeff King wrote: > On Tue, Jan 20, 2026 at 10:26:55AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > We do apply them in some places, like shortlog: > > $ cat >>.mailmap <<\EOF > Junio C Hamano > EOF > $ git shortlog -1 -ne --group=trailer:signed-off-by 3f051fc9 > Junio C Hamano (1): > doc: patch-id: --verbatim locks in --stable > > Kristoffer Haugsbakk (1): > doc: patch-id: --verbatim locks in --stable > > As you noted, we don't necessarily know that a given trailer represents > an ident. But we try to parse them as one (not just for mailmap, but for > stuff like "-e"), and if that doesn't work leave it as an opaque string. > That all comes from 56d5dde752 (shortlog: parse trailer idents, > 2020-09-27). Ah so the mailmap entries I'm adding do have some limited use, but they don't work for git log. > I _thought_ we added support for %(trailers) to handle mailmap, too, > but... > >> Or perhaps your "Yeah" is about "we've talkined about doing it"? > > ...yeah, I think this is the case. There's a proof of concept at: > > https://lore.kernel.org/git/YW8A5FznqLYs7MqH@coredump.intra.peff.net/ Thanks for the link, I thought we'd discussed it at one of the contributor summits but I couldn't remember if anything had come of it. Phillip > but nobody ever took it further (I do still run with it as part of my > daily build, which probably enhanced my confusion ;) ). > > -Peff >