From: Michael Witten Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 21:46:50 GMT Subject: Re: What's in a name? Let's use a (uuid,name,email) triplet Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <46a038f91003181439lc343dafl6b9321a0b620de84@mail.gmail.com> On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 16:39, Martin Langhoff wrote: > > 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? Again: >> At worst, things will be just like they have always been. >> >> 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.