On Thu, 18 Mar 2010, Jon Smirl wrote: > > We could hash people emails and then build a .mailmap equivalent thus > hiding their identity. So? Why? What's the advantage? I literally _only_ see disadvantages to the whole thing. If the uuid has some meaning (ie it's related to actual _real_ information), then it is nothing but a really inconvenient placeholder for the real information, adn another source of new problems (like "how do we know they are in sync? I edit the .gitconfig file by hand all the time"). And if it doesn't have meaning, then it's just annoying and will never ever be attached to anything relevant long-term. Either way, there are only downsides, no upsides. There is absolutely _no_ way that teh uuid would ever actually encode any real meaningful information that isn't better represented by the name/email. Linus -- 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