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From:   Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>
Date:   Thu, 7 Jul 2022 11:15:30 +0200
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On Thu, Jun 30, 2022 at 11:33 PM Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

> Independent of what this "The output from 'cat-file commit' is
> tweaked" feature, I wonder if we want a command that can be used as
> a filter.  Just like "git name-rev --stdin" reads a stream of text,
> finds commit-looking references in it, and annotates them, the
> command (e.g. "git mailmap") would find ident-looking strings and
> replaces with the mapped results, or something.

Yeah, that might be useful. Especially one issue is that trailers like
"Reviewed-by: ...", "Helped-by: ..." are interesting for statistics
and replacing their content with mapped results could help improve the
stats.

Related to this, I wonder if `git interpret-trailers` should have a
simple way to map trailer content.