Add email to author, in addition to name #115
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Convert the name string to an author struct, adding the email string. Allow showing the email, instead of the name (add it to the toggle).
Add an additional author display mode, showing the user name and not the domain name. Left to do is a "conversion file", for emails to usernames. Identical to what git cvsimport uses, just used in the other direction.
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Hello, I suggest that we keep a unified author cache instead of having the names and emails in separate caches. Else I like the idea a lot. |
The initial patch and idea was contributed by Anders F Björklund. Reimplemented to use a 'single object' cache of authors.
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Hello, I went ahead and redid the patch based on my comments above. Hope you don't mind. Anyway, I will go ahead and close this issue. |
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Thanks for accepting the feature! I think the mailmap feature is more for making e.g. user@hotmail.com and user@gmail.com appear as the same author ? The display feature that I had in mind would be to show the username for places that use longer emails, instead of just user@host (domain) like traditional unix domain emails... So for "A U Thor a.u.thor@example.com" it would show "author" instead of "a.u.thor". Or if that example looks contrived, "afb" instead of "anders.f.bjorklund". One could even imagine looking it up in LDAP, as an additional add-on feature. Anyway, same as in cvs/svn import only backwards (and for display only) Will try your code, and open new issue(s)... |
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OK. sounds a bit like the author initials, but applied to the email user name. |
Allow showing the email, instead of the name (add it to the toggle).
Left to do is a "conversion file", to show usernames of the authors.