On Fri, 19 Mar 2010, Michael Haggerty wrote:
Michael Witten wrote:
On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 02:41, Michael Haggerty <mhagger@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Michael Witten wrote:
Rather than use a (name,email) pair to identify people, let's use
a (uuid,name,email) triplet.
[...]
A UUID doesn't need to be a big hex number. All it has to be is a
"Universally Unique Identifier". Like, oh, for example, your
*** EMAIL ADDRESS ***
[1]. There is even already a way to fix up mistakes or unavoidable
email address changes, namely the .mailmap file.
*facepalm*
You've just repeated everything that I've said; go look at the rest of
the thread, where I spend plenty of time correcting the same hangups
about my choice of the word UUID and my use of hex digits.
No, my point is to use the *existing* email address as the UUID
*without* adding another field. Nothing needs to be changed!
if you are now proposing using the e-mail address, that already
exists and is supported by the tools, it sounds like you are just
withdrawing your proposal (other than possibly proposing that the e-mail
field gets renamed to UUID????)
David Lang
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