Re: [PATCH 0/2] mailmap from blobs

2012-12-13 Thread Junio C Hamano
Jeff King writes: > Subject: [PATCH] mailmap: default mailmap.blob in bare repositories > > The motivation for mailmap.blob is to let users of bare > repositories use the mailmap feature, as they would not have > a checkout containing the .mailmap file. We can make it even > easier for them by ju

Re: [PATCH 0/2] mailmap from blobs

2012-12-13 Thread Jeff King
On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 12:59:00PM -0500, Jeff King wrote: > > 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. > > Yeah,

Re: [PATCH 0/2] mailmap from blobs

2012-12-12 Thread Jeff King
On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 09:54:23AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Jeff King 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 worki

Re: [PATCH 0/2] mailmap from blobs

2012-12-12 Thread Junio C Hamano
Jeff King 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 op