will go out of date.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>