Support for .mailmap when reading authors?

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
c, git, ruby
Domain
tooling

Research direction

Start by tracing how Rugged exposes commit author names and how the underlying libgit2 integration handles repository metadata. Confirm the expected behavior for a .mailmap file and identify the relevant tests; done means authors are reported using the mapped names without rewriting commit history.

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Description

It can be useful to respect people's chosen names without rewriting history.

Can we support the .mailmap file so that the authors names are updated?

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