Re: using the mailmap file?

[Patrick McCarty]

On 2010-03-24, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote:
> 
> We have a sort-of nice mailmap file, can this be
> used to rewrite author names/email addresses?
> 
> I'm running it from git format-branch, so I'd
> need something that takes GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL
> and GIT_AUTHOR_NAME and returns the unified
> pair.

You could use it to rewrite author *names*, but probably not the email
addresses, since the .mailmap is primarily used to fix the output of
`git shortlog'.

The man page for `git-shortlog' has a really nice example illustrating
this.

-Patrick