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

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On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 08:48, Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@xxxxxxxxx> 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.
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