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From: Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: What's in a name? Let's use a (uuid,name,email) triplet
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 09:26:07 -0500
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On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 08:48, Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com> wrote:
> You can't go back and edit the history in git so a map of the aliases
> is needed. =C2=A0The easy fix is a .mailmap file. However, the .mailm=
ap
> 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.