Re: What's in a name? Let's use a (uuid,name,email) triplet

On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 08:48, Jon Smirl [off-list ref] 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.