From c1f096042b9eb22da2c1e796101741e8d22c0875 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?utf8?q?C=C3=A9dric=20Bosdonnat?= Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2011 10:45:25 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Documented the funky email address alias feature logs containing weird email addresses like this can be handled in the aliases file to remap them to a correct address. "joe.hacker@acme.org Added some documentation in the README file for this --- README | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) diff --git a/README b/README index 9a3b03f..26cf81f 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -85,6 +85,15 @@ EmailAliases file Any patches originating from alias@address will be treated as if they had come from canonical@address. + It may happen that some people set their git user data in the + following form: "joe.hacker@acme.org ". The + "Joe Hacker" is then considered as the email... but gitdm says + it is a "Funky" email. An alias line in the following form can + be used to alias these commits aliased to the correct email + address: + + "Joe Hacker" joe.hacker@acme.org + EmailMap file -- 2.11.4.GIT