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From: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: What's in a name? Let's use a (uuid,name,email) triplet
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 09:48:57 -0400
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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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