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--- mantisbt:mailmap [2019/08/08 19:32] – [Updating .mailmap] dregad
+++ mantisbt:mailmap [2025/12/15 07:52] (current) – Identifying duplicates is done by update-credits.sh dregad
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 ===== Identifying duplicate authors in Git history =====
-This section provides command to identify duplicates that would require an entry in the .mailmap file.
+This section provides commands to identify duplicates that require an entry in the .mailmap file.
+<WRAP tip>
+This section is for documentation purposes only.
+Since 2.25.8, these checks are executed as part of the //update-credits.sh// script, which will output a list of duplicate entries to be added. Skip to the [[#updating_mailmap | Updating .mailmap section]] below.
+</WRAP>
 If there is no output, then there's nothing to do ! :-)
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 ===== Example =====
-The example below was generated on the MantisBT repository, after deleting ''.mailmap''. For the sake of simplicity, only
+The example below was generated on the MantisBT repository, after removing Victor's aliases from the ''.mailmap'' file.
-  - Identify <code>
+  - Identify duplicates <code>
 $ git log --format='%aN <%aE>' | sort -u | awk -F'<' '{print $1}' | uniq -c | grep -v '^ *1 '| cut -c9-
 Victor Boctor
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 ===== References =====
-  * [[https://git-scm.com/docs/git-check-mailmap#_mapping_authors|Git manual]]
+  * [[https://git-scm.com/docs/gitmailmap|Git manual]]
   * [[https://blog.developer.atlassian.com/aliasing-authors-in-git/|Aliasing authors in Git (Atlassian blog)]]