[Bug 1213199] Re: ignores .mailmap

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Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

** Changed in: git (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Confirmed

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Title:
  ignores .mailmap

Status in git package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  git's log command allows for a mailmap file that "is used to coalesce
  together commits by the same person in the shortlog, where their name
  and/or email address was spelled differently".  This is very handy for
  projects where a user has committed under different e-mail addresses.

  It would appear that gitk does not support or use mailmap files.

  From "man git-shortlog":

  The .mailmap feature is used to coalesce together commits by the same
  person in the shortlog, where their name and/or email address was
  spelled differently.

  If the file .mailmap exists at the toplevel of the repository, or at
  the location pointed to by the mailmap.file configuration option, it is
  used to map author and committer names and email addresses to canonical
  real names and email addresses.

  In the simple form, each line in the file consists of the canonical
  real name of an author, whitespace, and an email address used in the
  commit (enclosed by < and >) to map to the name. For example:

      Proper Name <commit at email.xx>

  The more complex forms are:

      <proper at email.xx> <commit at email.xx>

  which allows mailmap to replace only the email part of a commit, and:

      Proper Name <proper at email.xx> <commit at email.xx>

  which allows mailmap to replace both the name and the email of a commit
  matching the specified commit email address, and:

      Proper Name <proper at email.xx> Commit Name <commit at email.xx>

  which allows mailmap to replace both the name and the email of a commit
  matching both the specified commit name and email address.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
  Package: gitk 1:1.8.1.2-1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-29.42-generic 3.8.13.5
  Uname: Linux 3.8.0-29-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu8.3
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Fri Aug 16 11:24:07 2013
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2009-12-21 (1333 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release amd64 (20091027)
  MarkForUpload: True
  PackageArchitecture: all
  SourcePackage: git
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to raring on 2013-04-26 (112 days ago)

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