title: GIT .mailmap works per repo, but not in global, why?
body: <p>I have a group of repos and I have a .mailmap file to combine user names.</p>
  
  <p>My .mailmap file works for all the repos, when it is in the root of each.</p>
  
  <p>I tried to put the file in my ~/.gitconfig file and it doesn't work. Im using Git for Windows
  and in my global .gitconfig file I added this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&gt;&gt; git config --global mailmap.file "~/.mailmap"
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Thats the command I used. Also tried the log shown below.</p>
  
  <pre><code>[log]
      mailmap = ~/.mailmap
  [mailmap]
      file = C:/Documents and Settings/&lt;username&gt;/.mailmap
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Both lead to the same file location, but it doesn't seem to honor this file when using git-shortlog</p>
  
  <p>Any suggestions?
  Thanks.</p>
  
  <p><strong>EDIT</strong>
  Never did git this to work on windows. My hack-fix was to keep the mailmap file in the database, and to write it to each repository with a script.</p>