It looks like I got confused while writing up
84f8c846 (Add support
for loading author_hacks, year_hacks, and aliases from the config,
2012-02-16). Fill in the missing value to avoid confusing more folks
going forward.
will go out of date. Some VCSs have a built-in method of dealing with
this (e.g. Git's `.mailmap`_). For those without such a VCS, you can
add an `aliases`` section to your config file, where the option names
-are the canonical name of the ...?. For example::
+are the canonical name of the author. For example::
[aliases]
John Doe <jdoe@a.com>: John Doe | jdoe | J. Doe <j@doe.net>