Re: What's in a name? Let's use a (uuid,name,email) triplet

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> Here's a hint: using your "uuid" model, I'll get some commits into a
> project with the wrong uuid. Because I made a typo, or changed
> machines (and a random uuid got created), whatever reason. So now in
> my project I appear under 2 uuids.
>
> What should we do in that case? Use mailmap to map the stray uuid to
> the "real" one?... Have we done a lot of work to get back to square 0?

>> At worst, things will be just like they have always been.
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>> 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.