From: Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 22:02:06 GMT
Subject: Re: What's in a name? Let's use a (uuid,name,email) triplet
Message-ID: <b4087cc51003181502y1f339cf8u268fa5388ace098@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <46a038f91003181455u7136e011u5352c996384f086d@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 16:55, Martin Langhoff
<martin.langhoff@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.