Re: What's in a name? Let's use a (uuid,name,email) triplet

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On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 16:39, Martin Langhoff
<martin.langhoff@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Here's a hint: using your "uuid" model, I'll get some commits into a
> project with the wrong uuid. Because I made a typo, or changed
> machines (and a random uuid got created), whatever reason. So now in
> my project I appear under 2 uuids.
>
> What should we do in that case? Use mailmap to map the stray uuid to
> the "real" one?... Have we done a lot of work to get back to square 0?

Again:

>> At worst, things will be just like they have always been.
>>
>> Most likely, all that will happen is identification entropy won't
>> increase nearly so rapidly and there might be other benefits
>> such as shortlog speed improvements.
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