[PATCH] Describe how to generate .mailmap automatically using "git log"
From: Eric Hanchrow <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:46:38
Subsystem:
documentation, the rest · Maintainers:
Jonathan Corbet, Linus Torvalds
--- Documentation/mailmap.txt | 10 ++++++++++ 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/mailmap.txt b/Documentation/mailmap.txt
index 288f04e..ae62669 100644
--- a/Documentation/mailmap.txt
+++ b/Documentation/mailmap.txt@@ -72,3 +72,13 @@ Santa Claus <santa.claus@northpole.xx> <me@company.xx> Use hash '#' for comments that are either on their own line, or after the email address. + +If most of your commits lack proper author names (as will be the case +if your repository was generated by linkgit:git-svn[1]), you can +generate most of a correct `.mailmap` automatically like this: + +------------ +git log "--pretty=%an <%ae>" | sort | uniq > .mailmap +------------ + +You will then have to edit the file to add the proper author names. --
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