Re: What's in a name? Let's use a (uuid,name,email) triplet
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Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com>
- Date
- Mar 18, 2010, 21:44 UTC
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- <b4087cc51003181444i7b7dea5bgc8f4f43b365526f4@mail.gmail.com>
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- <alpine.LFD.2.00.1003181411400.18017@i5.linux-foundation.org>
On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 16:27, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
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> > On Thu, 18 Mar 2010, Michael Witten 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. > > The thing is, you don't seem to realize that most authorship is [sent > over email with incomplete information].
That is a really good point, and something I'll have to consider more thoroughly.
However, I do NOT claim that my proposal will add information where there is none, only that it will reduce the rate at which entropy increases.