git-check-mailmap

Name

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

Synopsis

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

Description

For each “Name ” or “” from the command-line or standard input (when using --stdin), look up the person’s 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, “Name ” is printed; otherwise only “” 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].