git-check-mailmap(1)
====================

NAME
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git-check-mailmap - Show canonical names and email addresses of contacts


SYNOPSIS
--------
[verse]
'git check-mailmap' [<options>] <contact>...


DESCRIPTION
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For each ``Name $$<user@host>$$'', ``$$<user@host>$$'', or ``$$user@host$$''
from the command-line or standard input (when using `--stdin`), look up the
person's canonical name and email address (see "Mapping Authors" below). If
found, print them; otherwise print the input as-is.


OPTIONS
-------
--stdin::
	Read contacts, one per line, from the standard input after exhausting
	contacts provided on the command-line.

--mailmap-file=<file>::
	In addition to any configured mailmap files, read the specified
	mailmap file. Entries in this file take precedence over entries in
	either the default mailmap file or any configured mailmap file.

--mailmap-blob=<blob>::
	Like `--mailmap-file`, but consider the value as a reference to a
	blob in the repository. If both `--mailmap-file` and
	`--mailmap-blob` are specified, entries in `--mailmap-file` will
	take precedence.

OUTPUT
------

For each contact, a single line is output, terminated by a newline.  If the
name is provided or known to the 'mailmap', ``Name $$<user@host>$$'' is
printed; otherwise only ``$$<user@host>$$'' is printed.


CONFIGURATION
-------------

See `mailmap.file` and `mailmap.blob` in linkgit:git-config[1] for how
to specify a custom `.mailmap` target file or object.


MAPPING AUTHORS
---------------

See linkgit:gitmailmap[5].


GIT
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Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite