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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 18:34:57 -0500
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On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 18:17, Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Mar 2010, Martin Langhoff wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 1:27 PM, Linus Torvalds
>> <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>> > Even shorter version: NO.
>>
>> One thing we all forgot to mention here is that even if it was a goo=
d
>> idea (which it is not), implementing it means a flag day: changing i=
n
>> the pack format, wire protocol and APIs, messing up with compatibili=
ty
>> 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 patc=
h
> by email. =C2=A0Most commits in git.git originated from a patch sent =
via
> email. =C2=A0Should we start pasting UUIDs in the email body? =C2=A0W=
hat if the
> cut & paste was quickly done and the UUID is missing a character or t=
wo?
> Because this does happen. =C2=A0And because this UUID thing is suppos=
ed to be
> a perfect identity representation then we'll need a .uuidmap to corre=
ct
> such mistakes of course.
>
> Better improve on the existing .mailmap instead.

Actually, those points were touched upon earlier (including my rebuttal=
s).