On 2019-07-11 at 08:19:58, Ariadne Conill wrote: > The `git log` command shows the author and committer name recorded in > the git repository itself, while other commands respect `.mailmap` > by default. I believe this is a bad design: it causes log entries to > reflect inaccurate information: anyone who changes their name or > e-mail address will not have that change (recorded in mailmap file) > reflected when using `git log` by default. > > Anyone who explicitly wants the current behaviour can clearly request > it by setting the `log.mailmap` setting to `false` in their > `.gitconfig` file.
While I'm in favor of using the mailmap by default, typically we want a way people can override a default setting from the command line. So in this case, we have "--use-mailmap", but we don't have a "--no-use-mailmap" (at least, it's not documented in the manpage). I think we'd want to add such an option so that people can set it if they need non-default behavior. -- brian m. carlson: Houston, Texas, US OpenPGP: https://keybase.io/bk2204
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