Re: [PATCH 0/2] mailmap from blobs

2012-12-13 Thread Junio C Hamano
Jeff King writes: > Subject: [PATCH] mailmap: default mailmap.blob in bare repositories > > The motivation for mailmap.blob is to let users of bare > repositories use the mailmap feature, as they would not have > a checkout containing the .mailmap file. We can make it even > easier for them by ju

Re: [PATCH 0/2] mailmap from blobs

2012-12-13 Thread Jeff King
On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 12:59:00PM -0500, Jeff King wrote: > > Have you considered defaulting to read from HEAD:.mailmap even when > > this new configuration is not there if core.bare is set? I would > > imagine that it would be the most convenient and match people's > > expectations. > > Yeah,

Re: [PATCH 0/2] mailmap from blobs

2012-12-12 Thread Jeff King
On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 09:54:23AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Jeff King writes: > > > I noticed recently that the GitHub contributions page for git.git did > > not seem very accurate. The problem is that while it uses shortlog, it > > does not respect .mailmap, because we do not have a worki

Re: [PATCH 0/2] mailmap from blobs

2012-12-12 Thread Junio C Hamano
Jeff King writes: > I noticed recently that the GitHub contributions page for git.git did > not seem very accurate. The problem is that while it uses shortlog, it > does not respect .mailmap, because we do not have a working tree from > which to read the .mailmap. > > This series adds a config op

[PATCH 0/2] mailmap from blobs

2012-12-12 Thread Jeff King
I noticed recently that the GitHub contributions page for git.git did not seem very accurate. The problem is that while it uses shortlog, it does not respect .mailmap, because we do not have a working tree from which to read the .mailmap. This series adds a config option analogous to mailmap.file,