Re: [PATCH v4 0/3] Add mailmap mechanism in cat-file options

[Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>]

On Sun, Nov 13, 2022 at 10:28 PM Siddharth Asthana
<siddharthasthana31@gmail.com> wrote:

> In this patch series we didn't want to change that '%(objectsize)'
> always shows the size of the original object even when `--use-mailmap`
> is set because first we have the long term plan to unify how the formats
> for `git cat-file` and other commands works. And second existing formats
> like the "pretty formats" used bt `git log` have different options for

s/used bt/used by/

> fields respecting mailmap or not respecting it (%an is for author name
> while %aN for author name respecting mailmap).

[...]

> = Patch Organization
>
> - The first patch makes `-s` option to return updated size of the
>   <commit/tag> object, when combined with `--use-mailmap` option, after
>   replacing the idents using the mailmap mechanism.
> - The second patch makes `--batch-check` option to return updated size of
>   the <commit/tag> object, when combined with `--use-mailmap` option,
>   after replacing the idents using the mailmap mechanism.
> - The third patch improves the documentation of `-s`, `--batch`,
>   `--batch-check` and `--batch-command` options by adding they can be
>   combined with `--use-mailmap` options.

So the documentation patch is now part of this small series again.

Even if this documentation patch is a bug fix, it might be better at
this point to squash this patch into the patches 1/3 and 2/3. At least
I think that would better follow Junio's last comments about this. If
you go this way, you might want to squash the documentation parts
about -s from patch 3/3 into patch 1/3 and the rest of patch 3/3 into
patch 2/3.

> = Changes in v4
>
> - Improve the documentation patch to clearly state that the `-s`,
>   `--batch-check`, `--batch-command` and `--batch` options can be only
>   be used with `--textconv`, `--filters` or `--use-mailmap`.

Here I think you should say that the documentation patch is part of
this series again and explain a bit why.

Anyway I took a look at the actual patches in this series and they
look good to me now. So I would be Ok to merge it either as is or with
patch 3/3 squashed into patches 1/3 and 2/3 as discussed above.

Thanks!