@chrmi If your primary concern is an author name showing up in commit logs, you can use the mailmap to change the displayed name without rewriting the history: https://git-scm.com/docs/gitmailmap
@arjache @chrmi Yup. We can’t really rewrite the Swift repo to remove deadnames, but we have a big mailmap file that a ton of contributors use to normalize email addresses and such. The deadnames are pretty much hidden in the clutter.
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@arjache @chrmi Yup. We can’t really rewrite the Swift repo to remove deadnames, but we have a big mailmap file that a ton of contributors use to normalize email addresses and such. The deadnames are pretty much hidden in the clutter.