.mailmap in top directory

Oleg Verych
2007-02-22T23:53:49Z

On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 10:42:27PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
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> > > add-mailmap-for-proper-git-shortlog-output.patch
> >
> > i can't tell anything about this one. For what?
>
> Beats me. git stuff. I'll let Linus decide.

So it's in 2.6.21-rc1.

Is it really so necessary in the linux-source?
Who suppose to track and update this?

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