diff options
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/config.txt | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-shortlog.txt | 3 |
2 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt index e2b8775..6dd57bd 100644 --- a/Documentation/config.txt +++ b/Documentation/config.txt @@ -1012,6 +1012,14 @@ log.showroot:: Tools like linkgit:git-log[1] or linkgit:git-whatchanged[1], which normally hide the root commit will now show it. True by default. +mailmap.file:: + The location of an augmenting mailmap file. The default + mailmap, located in the root of the repository, is loaded + first, then the mailmap file pointed to by this variable. + The location of the mailmap file may be in a repository + subdirectory, or somewhere outside of the repository itself. + See linkgit:git-shortlog[1] and linkgit:git-blame[1]. + man.viewer:: Specify the programs that may be used to display help in the 'man' format. See linkgit:git-help[1]. diff --git a/Documentation/git-shortlog.txt b/Documentation/git-shortlog.txt index 498bd28..66b6045 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-shortlog.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-shortlog.txt @@ -48,7 +48,8 @@ OPTIONS FILES ----- -If a file `.mailmap` exists at the toplevel of the repository, +If a file `.mailmap` exists at the toplevel of the repository, or at the +location pointed to by the log.mailmap configuration option, it is used to map an author email address to a canonical real name. This can be used to coalesce together commits by the same person where their name was spelled differently (whether with the same email address or |