Support for .mailmap when reading authors?
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Description
It can be useful to respect people's chosen names without rewriting history.
Can we support the .mailmap file so that the authors names are updated?
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Research direction
Start by tracing how Rugged exposes commit author names and how the underlying libgit2 integration handles repository metadata. Confirm the expected behavior for a .mailmap file and identify the relevant tests; done means authors are reported using the mapped names without rewriting commit history.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- c, git, ruby
- Domain
- tooling
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100