Does GitHub consider .mailmap for contribution graph

Question

Have got a git repo with incorrect contributors and their contributions. Repo has few commit's from different emails and alias name and we have added .mailmap to resolve this issue.

Shortlog recognizes .mailmap and groups contributions accordingly, but it doesn't reflect on GitHub. Does GitHub consider .mailmap file or should we have to wait for GitHub re-run the graph.

git shortlog -sne

Note: We have waited for 24 hours already

Erased

Yes, github consider .mailmap file – Diffractive

@Diffractive yes git considers, and shortlog is the proof. Need to know about github considers as well ? The link points git repo that is hosted on github, so i am considering it as git documentation and not github's. – Erased

Did it ever start working for you? I'm curious if it works as well. I can find no evidence that it actually works. – Slenderize

@Slenderize Yes, it worked for us. – Erased

Answer 1

Github considers .mailmap file for contributions and it takes time to update contributors graph and pulse (in our case it was 24 - 36 hours )

Erased

I have not been able to get this working, despite waiting several days. Are you willing to post a link to the repository where you got .mailmap to be reflected in the Contributors graph? – Tervalent

It was in a enterprise github installation with restricted access. – Erased

@Erased this Github Community post from July 2020 says that "GitHub does not support using mailmap files" and "The only way to update the contributor details in your commits is to rewrite git history". I just pushed up a .mailmap file to my Github Enterprise Server repo and will update here if my contribution graph is corrected. – Tillfourd

In my case contribution graph was fixed. Not sure if this is a recent development / fix. – Erased

Hmm, strange. It's been 4 days since pushing up the .mailmap and our Github Enterprise Server repo is still not showing a fixed contribution graph. – Tillfourd

@Tillfourd Did this ever end up working for you? – Brandonbrandt

Doesn't work for me either. The only thing that works for me is adding the email addresses of the commits that aren't recognized under Settings/Emails. – Kopaz

Answer 2

GitHub currently (as of 2023-12-06) does not remap author names or email addresses according to the rules in a .mailmap file.

I've created a small test repository that you can use to verify this.

Devour