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 19, 2010, 00:27 UTC
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On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 19:03, Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net> wrote:
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> On Thu, 18 Mar 2010, Michael Witten wrote: > >> On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 18:37, Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net> wrote: >> > On Thu, 18 Mar 2010, Michael Witten wrote: >> > >> >> 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. >> > >> > The shortlog speed improvement is certainly not going to compensate for >> > all the added human time needed to process the extra piece of >> > information. >> >> What added human time? > > The time that humans will have to spend on this UUID > setup/fixing/whatnot.
Compatibility concerns aside, there is virtually no overhead. Indeed, there would be less overhead than there is now in terms of fixing.