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, 12:09 UTC
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On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 05:54, Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org> wrote:
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> While I don't agree with the need for that uuid thing, I'd like to > pinpoint that people who care can't necessarily make their e-mail > consistant. For example, Linus used to use an @osdl.org address, and > he now uses an @linux-foundation.org address. It's still the same Linus, > but the (name, email) pair has legitimately changed.
Indeed.
This is because the name/email pair (as in the 'name' and 'email' config variables) CONFLATES the idea of identity and current email account.