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Mapping names with .mailmap
commit ba805256075eb86cf8a09a1d5c3161dbe6fc63e5
Author: Paul "Moo" Cowboy <
moo@wild-west.example.net
>
Date:
Thu May 9 10:07:01 2013 +0200
[FR] Frere Jacques
Thu May 9 10:01:44 2013 +0200
[EN] Little skylark, lovely little skylark
...
Internally all the revisions are denoted with original authors.
How It Works
To change your name you can use the following command:
$ git config --global user.name "Your Name"
or edit your
.gitconfig
file by hand. The commands:
$ git config --global user.name "John Doe"
$ git config --global user.email
john.doe@example.net
create the following
.gitconfig
entry:
It doesn't really matter whether you use a
$ git config
command or edit a
.gitconfig
file. The important fact to remember is that name and email entries