Re: [PATCH] log: use mailmap by default

[Ariadne Conill <ariadne@dereferenced.org>]

Hello,

On Thu, Jul 11, 2019 at 10:19 AM brian m. carlson
<sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> wrote:
>
> 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.

I agree that there is probably some useful reasons to have this
option, so I can add an option that forces mailmap usage off to
supplement the --use-mailmap option.  It's no problem.  I will
generate a new patch series in a few minutes.

Thanks for reviewing!

Ariadne