From: Michael Witten Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:26:07 GMT Subject: Re: What's in a name? Let's use a (uuid,name,email) triplet Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <9e4733911003180648w74f48194w1d75b0d58a309f1e@mail.gmail.com> On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 08:48, Jon Smirl wrote: > 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.