Re: Use of a mailmap file with git-log

Rich Midwinter [off-list ref] writes:

I'm working on a project for a large organisation that wants to make
widespread use of git and the mailmap feature.

This seems to be supported by default in git-shortlog but not git-log
(and other variants) without specifying custom formats, which isn't
really something I want to try and 'fix' across the organisation. Is
there a reason for this feature omission or has it just evolved that
way and could it be fixed?

I think it was pretty much the latter, but people may already be
depending on the command to give them the "true as recorded back
then" names in the output.  A fix may have to involve inventing a
new option "log --use-mailmap" that is explicitly given from the
command line.