Re: [PATCH] mailmap: only look for .mailmap in work tree

Eric Sunshine [off-list ref] writes:

On Tue, Feb 9, 2021 at 12:31 PM Jeff King [off-list ref] wrote:

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Subject: [PATCH] mailmap: only look for .mailmap in work tree
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Signed-off-by: Jeff King <redacted>
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diff --git a/Documentation/git-shortlog.txt b/Documentation/git-shortlog.txt

@@ -113,6 +113,10 @@ MAPPING AUTHORS
+Note that if `git shortlog` is run outside of a repository (to process
+log contents on stdin), it will look for a `.mailmap` file in the
+current directory.

Elsewhere in this same document, techy-jargon "stdin" is spelled out
fully as "standard input".

Good point.