Subject: Re: blame --line-porcelain is providing me with funny output

From: Dennis Kaarsemaker <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2017 12:03:09 +0100

On Wed, 2017-03-22 at 18:32 -0600, Edmundo Carmona Antoranz wrote:
> 
> $ git blame --no-progress -w --line-porcelain -L 72,72
> author-mail <[email-masked]>
> 
> $ git cat-file -p 3290fe6dd2a7e2bb35ac760443335dec58802ff1
> author Stefan Beller <[email-masked]> 1484160452 -0800
> 
> Committer mails are matching, however author mail does not match
> between line-porcelain and cat-file. Is there a reason for that?

The commit object has Stefan's Google address, but git.git's  mailmap
maps that to his gmail address.

git blame actually does this mapping, where git cat-file does not.
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Dennis Kaarsemaker
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