The # character begins a comment to the end of line, blank lines
are ignored.
In the simple form, each line in the file consists of the canonical
real name of an author, whitespace, and an email address used in the
commit (enclosed by < and >) to map to the name. For example:
Proper Name <commit@email.xx>
The more complex forms are:
<proper@email.xx> <commit@email.xx>
which allows mailmap to replace only the email part of a commit, and:
Proper Name <proper@email.xx> <commit@email.xx>
which allows mailmap to replace both the name and the email of a
commit matching the specified commit email address, and:
Proper Name <proper@email.xx> Commit Name <commit@email.xx>
which allows mailmap to replace both the name and the email of a
commit matching both the specified commit name and email address.
Both E-Mails and names are matched case-insensitively. For example
this would also match the Commit Name <commit@email.xx> above:
Proper Name <proper@email.xx> CoMmIt NaMe <CoMmIt@EmAiL.xX>