[PATCH] Add support for git's mailmap.

[john at keeping.me.uk (John Keeping)]

On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 03:22:35PM -0400, Jason A. Smith wrote:
> On 08/24/2016 06:30 PM, John Keeping wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 05:27:31PM -0400, Jason A. Smith wrote:
> >> Are you proposing to remove the angle brackets around the email address
> >> everywhere in cgit strings, to match git, which I think is done in the
> >> parse_user function? Then use git's map_user directly and create a
> >> cgit_print_ident function that inserts the angle brackets when printed?
> >> Then also making local copies of the pointers so freeing the info
> >> structure doesn't break the mailmap? I think this would be a much larger
> >> change beyond just supporting the mailmap.
> >
> > Yes, pretty much exactly this.  There's only a small number of sites
> > that actually use author_email and committer_email, most of which are
> > already printing something, so the fallout shouldn't be too bad.
> >
> > The only other cases are opening the email filter, which is why I
> > suggested wrapping at least part of that process in a new function.
> 
> So how do you propose splitting the patches to accomplish this? One 
> patch to add mailmap support and another patch to modify how angle 
> brackets are handled in the email addresses? Which patch goes first and 
> who will fix the angle brackets? Are you volunteering? ;)

The cleanup goes first, since it makes the subsequent patch much
simpler.

I took a quick look at it and will send the patches in reply to this
message.  It will probably be simplest if you pick them up and send a
series containing those two patches and the patch for mailmap support.