chore(identity): .mailmap resolves every past commit to Cato - #450
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No .mailmap existed, so every commit displayed its raw author. Five variants
had accumulated, including two distinct retired noreply addresses — the
numbered 41178744+maonakamoto@ form and an unnumbered maonakamoto@ one, which
an email-only rule written for the first would silently miss.
Two kinds of rule are needed. Most variants match by commit email alone. But
commits authored as "G" carry the CANONICAL email, so an email-only rule cannot
reach them — mailmap matches on the commit's email, and theirs is already the
target. Those need a name+email rule on both sides.
Verified rather than assumed, over the last 400 commits:
before: G, Mao Nakamoto (x2 addresses), Claude, dependabot
after: 312 Cato · 78 dependabot · 10 Claude (AI assistant)
Claude's own commits stay attributed to Claude.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01G2LBioUzJP4oBL9LeH9qAe
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.mailmapexisted, so every commit displayed its raw author. Five variants had accumulated — including two distinct retired noreply addresses: the numbered41178744+maonakamoto@form and an unnumberedmaonakamoto@one, which a rule written for the first would have silently missed.A mailmap fixes the displayed author of every existing commit without rewriting a hash.
Two kinds of rule
Most variants match by commit email alone. But commits authored as
Gcarry the canonical email, so an email-only rule cannot reach them — mailmap matches on the commit's email, and theirs is already the target. Those need aname <email>rule on both sides.Verified, not assumed
git log --use-mailmap --format='%aN'over the last 400 commits. Claude's own commits stay attributed to Claude.Companion PRs: vitareba#93, botsmann#180, fleetcrown.
orangecat's mailmap was already correct.🤖 Generated with Claude Code