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Re: PATCH: Less fragile lookup of gpg key

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Grant Olson <kgo@grant-olson.net>
Date
May 1, 2010, 17:25 UTC
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On 5/1/2010 1:18 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> A Large Angry SCM <gitzilla@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>> Why not fall back to just the email if the full lookup fails?
> 
> Thanks; I like that suggestion a lot better.  Grant's suggestion does not
> make the lookup "less fragile", but actually makes it less reliable for
> people with the same address with different spellings of name and want to
> choose which one to use per project.
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Unless I'm mis-understanding you, the does the opposite of that. It finds your gpg key based on your git email, ignoring your git name, so that different spellings of the name between gpg and git become irrelevant.

-- 
Grant

"Can you construct some sort of rudimentary lathe?"
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  1. Grant OlsonMay 1, 2010
  2. A Large Angry SCMMay 1, 2010
  3. Junio C HamanoMay 1, 2010
  4. Grant OlsonMay 1, 2010
  5. Junio C HamanoMay 1, 2010
  6. Grant OlsonMay 2, 2010
  7. Greg A. WoodsMay 3, 2010
  8. Grant OlsonMay 3, 2010
  9. Theodore TsoMay 3, 2010
  10. Greg A. WoodsMay 3, 2010
  11. tytso@mit.eduMay 4, 2010
  12. Grant OlsonMay 4, 2010
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