gitmailmap(5)

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NAME

6       gitmailmap - Map author/committer names and/or E-Mail addresses
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SYNOPSIS

9       $GIT_WORK_TREE/.mailmap
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DESCRIPTION

12       If the file .mailmap exists at the toplevel of the repository, or at
13       the location pointed to by the mailmap.file or mailmap.blob
14       configuration options (see git-config(1)), it is used to map author and
15       committer names and email addresses to canonical real names and email
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SYNTAX

19       The # character begins a comment to the end of line, blank lines are
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22       In the simple form, each line in the file consists of the canonical
23       real name of an author, whitespace, and an email address used in the
24       commit (enclosed by < and >) to map to the name. For example:
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26           Proper Name <commit@email.xx>
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28       The more complex forms are:
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30           <proper@email.xx> <commit@email.xx>
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32       which allows mailmap to replace only the email part of a commit, and:
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34           Proper Name <proper@email.xx> <commit@email.xx>
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36       which allows mailmap to replace both the name and the email of a commit
37       matching the specified commit email address, and:
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39           Proper Name <proper@email.xx> Commit Name <commit@email.xx>
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41       which allows mailmap to replace both the name and the email of a commit
42       matching both the specified commit name and email address.
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44       Both E-Mails and names are matched case-insensitively. For example this
45       would also match the Commit Name <commit@email.xx> above:
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47           Proper Name <proper@email.xx> CoMmIt NaMe <CoMmIt@EmAiL.xX>
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NOTES

50       Git does not follow symbolic links when accessing a .mailmap file in
51       the working tree. This keeps behavior consistent when the file is
52       accessed from the index or a tree versus from the filesystem.
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EXAMPLES

55       Your history contains commits by two authors, Jane and Joe, whose names
56       appear in the repository under several forms:
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58           Joe Developer <joe@example.com>
59           Joe R. Developer <joe@example.com>
60           Jane Doe <jane@example.com>
61           Jane Doe <jane@laptop.(none)>
62           Jane D. <jane@desktop.(none)>
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64       Now suppose that Joe wants his middle name initial used, and Jane
65       prefers her family name fully spelled out. A .mailmap file to correct
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68           Joe R. Developer <joe@example.com>
69           Jane Doe <jane@example.com>
70           Jane Doe <jane@desktop.(none)>
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72       Note that there’s no need to map the name for <jane@laptop.(none)> to
73       only correct the names. However, leaving the obviously broken
74       <jane@laptop.(none)> and <jane@desktop.(none)> E-Mails as-is is usually
75       not what you want. A .mailmap file which also corrects those is:
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77           Joe R. Developer <joe@example.com>
78           Jane Doe <jane@example.com> <jane@laptop.(none)>
79           Jane Doe <jane@example.com> <jane@desktop.(none)>
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81       Finally, let’s say that Joe and Jane shared an E-Mail address, but not
82       a name, e.g. by having these two commits in the history generated by a
83       bug reporting system. I.e. names appearing in history as:
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85           Joe <bugs@example.com>
86           Jane <bugs@example.com>
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88       A full .mailmap file which also handles those cases (an addition of two
89       lines to the above example) would be:
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91           Joe R. Developer <joe@example.com>
92           Jane Doe <jane@example.com> <jane@laptop.(none)>
93           Jane Doe <jane@example.com> <jane@desktop.(none)>
94           Joe R. Developer <joe@example.com> Joe <bugs@example.com>
95           Jane Doe <jane@example.com> Jane <bugs@example.com>
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