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 # git-blame-someone-else
 
-> "I love git-blame-someone-else!!" -Linus Torvalds[^linus]
+> "I love git-blame-someone-else!!" -Linus Torvalds*
 
 ## Install
 
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 This changes not only who authored the commit but the listed commiter as well. It also is something I wrote as a joke, so please don't run this against your production repo and complain if this script deletes everything.
 
-[^linus]: Linus Torvalds didn't really approve of this. It's a joke to prove it works. [See his fake commit here](https://github.com/jayphelps/git-blame-someone-else/commit/e5cfe4bb2190a2ae406d5f0b8f49c32ac0f01cd7)
+*Linus Torvalds didn't really approve of this. It's a joke to prove it works. [See his fake commit here](https://github.com/jayphelps/git-blame-someone-else/commit/e5cfe4bb2190a2ae406d5f0b8f49c32ac0f01cd7)