Documented the funky email address alias feature

logs containing weird email addresses like this can be handled in the
aliases file to remap them to a correct address.
   "joe.hacker@acme.org <Joe Hacker>

Added some documentation in the README file for this
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Cédric Bosdonnat
2011-04-19 10:45:25 +02:00
committed by Jonathan Corbet
parent 47f284e68d
commit c1f096042b

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@@ -85,6 +85,15 @@ EmailAliases file
Any patches originating from alias@address will be treated as if
they had come from canonical@address.
It may happen that some people set their git user data in the
following form: "joe.hacker@acme.org <Joe Hacker>". The
"Joe Hacker" is then considered as the email... but gitdm says
it is a "Funky" email. An alias line in the following form can
be used to alias these commits aliased to the correct email
address:
"Joe Hacker" joe.hacker@acme.org
EmailMap file