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, 22:02 UTC
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- <46a038f91003181455u7136e011u5352c996384f086d@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 16:55, Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 5:46 PM, Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com> wrote: >>> 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. > > Of course we all read that line.
You missed the other line (probably gmail's fault):
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.