Jeff King <p...@peff.net> writes: > I noticed recently that the GitHub contributions page for git.git did > not seem very accurate. The problem is that while it uses shortlog, it > does not respect .mailmap, because we do not have a working tree from > which to read the .mailmap. > > This series adds a config option analogous to mailmap.file, but which > reads from a blob in the repository (so the obvious thing to set it to > is "HEAD:.mailmap" in a bare repo, and probably "master:.mailmap" if you > frequently want to traverse while on unrelated branches). The obvious > alternative is to checkout a temporary file of .mailmap and point > mailmap.file at it, but this is a bit more convenient.
Yeah, I think this is sane. Have you considered defaulting to read from HEAD:.mailmap even when this new configuration is not there if core.bare is set? I would imagine that it would be the most convenient and match people's expectations. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
