Mapping file contents from one repository to another

Hi all, This is a complicated question to try and ask, let alone answer, so I had best give some background. I have two repositories --- one of them, which I'll call "repoA", is the main repository, it's the one which most of the code we develop ends up.  The other repository, "repoB" is our p

git log to use .mailmap by default?

Hi, I note that when defining a .mailmap file, that it's honoured by git-shotlog(1) by default, but for git-log(1) I have to define an entirely new --pretty= formatting option to use it. Why is this?  Why doesn't git-log honour this by default like git-shortlog does? Would there be a way of ma

git-status: Use "-sb" options by default?

Hi, I've been rooting around the "git-config" man page as well as the "git-status" man page, but couldn't find the following, which suggests it's not (yet) possible. I'm looking for a way to make the "-sb" options to git-status the default somehow.  That is, I would like the short form of git-