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-If a file `.mailmap` exists at the toplevel of the repository,
+If a file `.mailmap` exists at the toplevel of the repository, or at the
+location pointed to by the log.mailmap configuration option,
it is used to map an author email address to a canonical real name. This
can be used to coalesce together commits by the same person where their
name was spelled differently (whether with the same email address or