From: Jon Smirl Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:48:57 GMT Subject: Re: What's in a name? Let's use a (uuid,name,email) triplet Message-ID: <9e4733911003180648w74f48194w1d75b0d58a309f1e@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4ba2293f.c5c2f10a.5e9c.5c4a@mx.google.com> 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 -- Jon Smirl jonsmirl@gmail.com