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authorJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2013-01-05 23:41:42 -0800
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2013-01-05 23:41:42 -0800
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Merge branch 'jk/mailmap-from-blob'
Allow us to read, and default to read, mailmap files from the tip of the history in bare repositories. This will help running tools like shortlog in server settings. * jk/mailmap-from-blob: mailmap: default mailmap.blob in bare repositories mailmap: fix some documentation loose-ends for mailmap.blob mailmap: clean up read_mailmap error handling mailmap: support reading mailmap from blobs mailmap: refactor mailmap parsing for non-file sources
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If the file `.mailmap` exists at the toplevel of the repository, or at
-the location pointed to by the mailmap.file configuration option, it
+the location pointed to by the mailmap.file or mailmap.blob
+configuration options, it
is used to map author and committer names and email addresses to
canonical real names and email addresses.