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authorJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2021-02-18 01:21:41 (GMT)
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2021-02-18 01:21:42 (GMT)
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Merge branch 'jk/mailmap-only-at-root'
The .mailmap is documented to be read only from the root level of a working tree, but a stray file in a bare repository also was read by accident, which has been corrected. * jk/mailmap-only-at-root: mailmap: only look for .mailmap in work tree
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@@ -113,6 +113,10 @@ MAPPING AUTHORS
See linkgit:gitmailmap[5].
+Note that if `git shortlog` is run outside of a repository (to process
+log contents on standard input), it will look for a `.mailmap` file in
+the current directory.
+
GIT
---
Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite