On Sat, Dec 8, 2018 at 7:09 AM Junio C Hamano <gits...@pobox.com> wrote: > If this were "Jonathan asked Brandon if we want to record an address > we can reach him in our .mailmap file and sent a patch to add one",
Not sure about Jonathan, but I did. > then the story is different, and I tend to agree with you that such > a patch is more or less pointless. That's not the purpose of the > mailmap file. Not directly, but when multiple commands use mailmap to show the canonical mail addresses, then it kinda is. When I look back at an old commit message, I may look up the author name and address, which is mapped. > Not until git-send-email learns to use that file to rewrite > To/cc/etc to the "canonical" addresses, anyway ;-) git-send-email does not have to when I copy/paste the address from git-log anyway. > I am not sure if there are people whose "canonical" address to be > used as the author is not necessarily the best address they want to > get their e-mails at, though. If we can be reasonably sure that the > set of such people is empty, then people can take the above mention > about send-email as a hint about a low-hanging fruit ;-) > > Thanks. > > -- Duy
