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Well, yes, but maybe they should? It doesn't seem like a huge feature...

• angus-g 5y ago
  What about if somebody clones a repo, then adds a .mailmap pointing all the addresses in the history to their own?
  • trulyme 5y ago
    If somebody clones the repo they can even rewrite history. But that is not the same as them being able to claim the ownership of a commit in the original repo.
  • teawrecks 5y ago
    Then in their clone, they made all the commits. But who cares about their clone?
• leni536 5y ago
  Now which commit's mailmap file should be used for the association? Whatever is on the "default" branch currently?
  • Aeolun 5y ago
    Whatever is in the branch you are looking at? Seems fairly straightforward.
    • remram 5y ago
      Viewing a specific commit or viewing the repositories' statistics ("insights" tab) both have no attached branch.
      • Cthulhu_ 5y ago
        in Github or in Git itself? While possible, I don't believe there's many floating commits around. The other issue of course is that at this point in time, there would not be a .mailmap. Of course, github can then fall back to a .mailmap file in the latest commit of the main branch.
        • remram 5y ago
          Commits are not usually floating but are very commonly in more than one branch.