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From: Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: What's in a name? Let's use a (uuid,name,email) triplet
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 16:29:28 -0500
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On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 16:19, Martin Langhoff
<martin.langhoff@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 5:12 PM, Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com> wrote:
>> This is all that I'm saying: Keep git exactly the way it is, but add
>> one extra piece of identifying information for each person.
>
> What's the value? For me it'll be "Martin Langhoff". I already have that.

Well, that's rather egotistical considering you're probably not the
only Martin Langhoff in this world. I'd advocate something like
"Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com>".

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.