# This mailmap fixes up author names/addresses.
+#
+# If you are adding to this file consider if a similar change needs to
+# be made to contrib/gitdm/aliases. They are not however completely
+# analogous. .mailmap is concerned with fixing up damaged author
+# fields where as the gitdm equivalent is more concerned with making
+# sure multiple email addresses get mapped onto the same author.
+#
+# From man git-shortlog the forms are:
+#
+#
# The first section translates weird addresses from the original git import
# into proper addresses so that they are counted properly by git shortlog.
# Also list preferred name forms where people have changed their
# git author config, or had utf8/latin1 encoding issues.