Add documentation and more tests for case-insensitivity. The existing
test only matched on the E-Mail part, but as shown here we also match
the name with strcasecmp().
This behavior was last discussed on the mailing list in the thread
starting at [1]. It seems we're keeping it like this, so let's
document it.
1. https://lore.kernel.org/git/87czykvg19.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com/
Signed-off-by: Ãvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
---
Documentation/gitmailmap.txt | 5 +++++
t/t4203-mailmap.sh | 14 ++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 19 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/gitmailmap.txt b/Documentation/gitmailmap.txt
index 55dfebd1b1..7f1089786d 100644
--- a/Documentation/gitmailmap.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitmailmap.txt
@@ -49,6 +49,11 @@ commit matching the specified commit email address, and:
which allows mailmap to replace both the name and the email of a
commit matching both the specified commit name and email address.
+Both E-Mails and names are matched case-insensitively. For example
+this would also match the 'Commit Name <commit@email.xx>' above:
+--
+Proper Name <proper@email.xx> CoMmIt NaMe <CoMmIt@EmAiL.xX>
+--
EXAMPLES
--------
diff --git a/t/t4203-mailmap.sh b/t/t4203-mailmap.sh
index f19736fef1..89cb300f28 100755
--- a/t/t4203-mailmap.sh
+++ b/t/t4203-mailmap.sh
@@ -220,7 +220,21 @@ test_expect_success 'name entry after email entry, case-insensitive' '
initial
EOF
+ git shortlog HEAD >actual &&
+ test_cmp expect actual &&
+
+ cat >internal.map <<-\EOF &&
+ NiCk <BuGs@CoMpAnY.Xy> NICK1 <BUGS@COMPANY.XX>
+ EOF
+
+ cat >expect <<-\EOF &&
+ NiCk (1):
+ second
+
+ Repo Guy (1):
+ initial
+ EOF
git shortlog HEAD >actual &&
test_cmp expect actual
'
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