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

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On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 7:17 PM, Nicolas Pitre <nico@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Mar 2010, Martin Langhoff wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 1:27 PM, Linus Torvalds
>> <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > Even shorter version: NO.
>>
>> One thing we all forgot to mention here is that even if it was a good
>> idea (which it is not), implementing it means a flag day: changing in
>> the pack format, wire protocol and APIs, messing up with compatibility
>> with users of pre-flag-day git, and rippling out to all the GUIs,
>> frontends and integration scripts out there.
>
> And nobody yet mentioned what should happen when someone sends a patch
> by email.  Most commits in git.git originated from a patch sent via
> email.  Should we start pasting UUIDs in the email body?  What if the
> cut & paste was quickly done and the UUID is missing a character or two?
> Because this does happen.  And because this UUID thing is supposed to be
> a perfect identity representation then we'll need a .uuidmap to correct
> such mistakes of course.
>
> Better improve on the existing .mailmap instead.

If anyone is interested I can send them a .mailmap that fixes a lot of
the problems in the kernel tree. It's two years old so it will need
updating.

>
>
> Nicolas
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