[trulyme]

Well, yes, but maybe they should? It doesn't seem like a huge feature...

[leni536]

Now which commit's mailmap file should be used for the association? Whatever is on the "default" branch currently?

[Aeolun]

Whatever is in the branch you are looking at? Seems fairly straightforward.

[remram]

Viewing a specific commit or viewing the repositories' statistics ("insights" tab) both have no attached branch.

[Cthulhu_]

in Github or in Git itself? While possible, I don't believe there's many floating commits around.

The other issue of course is that at this point in time, there would not be a .mailmap. Of course, github can then fall back to a .mailmap file in the latest commit of the main branch.

[remram]

Commits are not usually floating but are very commonly in more than one branch.

[angus-g]

What about if somebody clones a repo, then adds a .mailmap pointing all the addresses in the history to their own?

[trulyme]

If somebody clones the repo they can even rewrite history. But that is not the same as them being able to claim the ownership of a commit in the original repo.

[teawrecks]

Then in their clone, they made all the commits. But who cares about their clone?