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

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On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 8:50 PM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Does anybody care? Certainly not I. There is absolutely zero reason to
> worry about it. I used to find it convenient to see what machines I had
> worked on, so I actually included that. And one of them was clearly
> mis-configured, or git did something wrong when the hostname was already
> in FQDN format. Whatever.
>
> There is no real _value_ in making a .mailcap for each such buggy entry is
> what I'm trying to tell you. Those things are maybe used for statistics.
> On the whole, they are correct.

I was trying to track how many real people were working on the kernel.
 If we don't collapse the 13 different versions of you down to one
person the number numbers are way off.

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Jon Smirl
jonsmirl@xxxxxxxxx
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