Support aliases for committer names

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Since committers might change their commit name, or imports from (say)
Subversion to Git often don't set properly the author aliases from before,
it would be nice if it was possible to have a system of aliases so that
seemingly different committers could be folded in a single user in the output.

Thanks!

Original issue reported on code.google.com by flameeyes on 18 Jan 2010 at 2:25

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[And I cannot find how to change the issue after opening it =_= sigh, please do 
mark
this as an enhancement ^_^;;]

Original comment by flameeyes on 18 Jan 2010 at 2:27

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Original comment by acaudw...@gmail.com on 18 Jan 2010 at 6:30

• Changed state: Accepted
• Added labels: Priority-Low, Type-Enhancement
• Removed labels: Priority-Medium, Type-Defect

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for the SVN-to-Git mapping, see the git-svn option for --authors-file

for mapping of aliases, you can use a .mailmap file (which is baked into Git). 
See the 
following issue for more info: http://code.google.com/p/gource/issues/detail?
id=22&can=1&q=user

Original comment by steveharman on 22 Feb 2010 at 8:31