Re: What's in a name? Let's use a (uuid,name,email) triplet
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Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com>
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- Mar 18, 2010, 14:26 UTC
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On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 08:48, Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com> wrote:
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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
The addition of a uuid would not only likely decrease future trouble tremendously, but also allow for a much more efficient remapping of old (name,email) pairs.