git-check-mailmap(1) Ubuntu Man Page

Name

git-check-mailmap - Show canonical names and email addresses of contacts

Synopsis

git check-mailmap [<options>] <contact>...

Description

For each \(lqName <user@host>\(rq or \(lq<user@host>\(rq from the command-line or standard input (when using --stdin), look up the person\(cqs canonical name and email address (see "Mapping Authors" below). If found, print them; otherwise print the input as-is.

Options

--stdin Read contacts, one per line, from the standard input after exhausting contacts provided on the command-line.

Output

For each contact, a single line is output, terminated by a newline. If the name is provided or known to the mailmap, \(lqName <user@host>\(rq is printed; otherwise only \(lq<user@host>\(rq is printed.

Configuration

See mailmap.file and mailmap.blob in git-config(1) for how to specify a custom .mailmap target file or object.

Mapping Authors

See gitmailmap(5).

Git

Part of the git(1) suite