Michael Witten <mfwitten@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > So, forget the original generality and let's > define the uuid as a SHA-1 of some EASILY > REMEMBERED, already reasonably unique piece of > information such as an old (name,email) pair. What's the added value of the "SHA-1" thing, here? A hash of a pair (a, b) is exactly as unique as the pair itself (well, actually even a bit less if you consider collisions). -- Matthieu Moy http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html