From: Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 21:44:06 GMT
Subject: Re: What's in a name? Let's use a (uuid,name,email) triplet
Message-ID: <b4087cc51003181444i7b7dea5bgc8f4f43b365526f4@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <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:
>
> 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.