Possibility to merge authors

[TLINDEN]

I have the following situation:

git who table -l
┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│Author                          Last Edit   Commits   Files        Lines (+/-)│
├──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│Bobby Foo                       3 weeks ago     316     228   17,168 /   3,171│
│Foo, Bobby                      3 weeks ago     301     109   11,487 /   3,946│
│Tom the Horse                   3 weeks ago     103     156    7,788 /   7,633│
│the Horse, Tom                  2 weeks ago      22      74    6,806 /   3,918│
│...8 more...                                                                  │
└──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

As you can see, we have 2 users which show up twice each. The somewhat weird reason is, that we authenticate to Gitlab using LDAP, which sometimes reports us as prename name and sometimes as name, prename.

I'd like to have an option in git-who to merge these kind of users to get summary stats of the whole user.

For instance:

git who table -l -mergeuser "Bobby Foo+Foo, Bobby"
┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│Author                          Last Edit   Commits   Files        Lines (+/-)│
├──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│Bobby Foo                       3 weeks ago     617     337   28,655 /   6,117│
│Tom the Horse                   3 weeks ago     103     156    7,788 /   7,633│
│the Horse, Tom                  2 weeks ago      22      74    6,806 /   3,918│
│...8 more...                                                                  │
└──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

Would be really great!

[sinclairtarget]

Have you tried using Git mailmap to solve this problem?

[TLINDEN]

Thanks a lot, it indeed does!