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Re: [RFC] A global mailmap service

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Dec 13, 2018, 02:17 UTC
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Lukas Fleischer <lfleischer@lfos.de> writes:
> The basic idea of the service I imagine is simple:
>
> 1. You register a primary email address and specify a password. You
>    receive a verification email to confirm that the address is yours.
I would do so with my current, reachable address, I'd presume.
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> 2. At any time, you can add additional email addresses and link them to
>    your primary email address, using your previously specified password.
>    You can also update your primary email address. Any new addresses
>    obtain verification emails such that you cannot steal somebody else's
>    identity.

With this, I won't be able to add my ancient identities that appear in our history. I would imagine that one of the common reasons people use different identities in a project is that people changed e-mail providers or jobs.

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