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Re: What's in a name? Let's use a (uuid,name,email) triplet

From
Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>
Date
Mar 18, 2010, 13:48 UTC
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You can't go back and edit the history in git so a map of the aliases is needed. The easy fix is a .mailmap file. However, the .mailmap entries need a mechanism to track which entries are correct and which have been fixed. Read this long and painful thread... http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/7/28/134

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Jon Smirl
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