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This file is used by git (maybe also hg) to map different identities.
It can be used to map different names/email addresses to a preferred
name/email. So if you have authored/committed under different
names/email addresses you can map all these to a particular name/email.
Certain git commands (log, shortlog, show, blame etc) will consult this
file and show the Author/Committer accordingly.
Note: This does _not_ change history, this is simply used by various
commands to alter their output and can be disabled for some commands
with the --no-mailmap option.
This can be useful for commands like git shortlog so that all your
commits are shown under a single identity and also so people have an
up to date email address should they wish to contact you. And just for
overall consistency.
Seeing as I've already committed under two different email addresses
(not counting this one), I've put entries in this file to map my email
addresses to my @nginx.com one.
See also, gitmailmap(5).
Acked-by: Alex Colomar <alx@nginx.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Clayton <a.clayton@nginx.com>
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