Add mailmap.file as configurational option for mailmap location

This allows us to augment the repo mailmap file, and to use
mailmap files elsewhere than the repository root. Meaning
that the entries in mailmap.file will override the entries
in "./.mailmap", should they match.

Signed-off-by: Marius Storm-Olsen <marius@trolltech.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/config.c b/config.c
index 790405a213..0c8c76f13b 100644
--- a/config.c
+++ b/config.c
@@ -565,6 +565,15 @@ static int git_default_branch_config(const char *var, const char *value)
 	return 0;
 }
 
+static int git_default_mailmap_config(const char *var, const char *value)
+{
+	if (!strcmp(var, "mailmap.file"))
+		return git_config_string(&git_mailmap_file, var, value);
+
+	/* Add other config variables here and to Documentation/config.txt. */
+	return 0;
+}
+
 int git_default_config(const char *var, const char *value, void *dummy)
 {
 	if (!prefixcmp(var, "core."))
@@ -579,6 +588,9 @@ int git_default_config(const char *var, const char *value, void *dummy)
 	if (!prefixcmp(var, "branch."))
 		return git_default_branch_config(var, value);
 
+	if (!prefixcmp(var, "mailmap."))
+		return git_default_mailmap_config(var, value);
+
 	if (!strcmp(var, "pager.color") || !strcmp(var, "color.pager")) {
 		pager_use_color = git_config_bool(var,value);
 		return 0;