Re: What's in a name? Let's use a (uuid,name,email) triplet

Michael Witten wrote:

Short Version:
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Rather than use a (name,email) pair to identify people, let's use
a (uuid,name,email) triplet.

The uuid can be any piece of information that a user of git determines
to be reasonably unique across space and time and that is intended to
be used by that user virtually forever (at least within a project's
history).

For instance, the uuid could be an OSF DCE 1.1 UUID or the SHA-1 of
some easily remembered, already reasonably unique information.

This could really help keep identifications clean, and it is rather
straightforward and possibly quite efficient.


Long Version:
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The formatting of the information in the author & committer fields are a 
_social_ convention (with a little help from the tools).You can actually 
use this proposed "feature" now for your own commits by appending the 
UUID string to you name config setting, environment variable and/or GCOS 
field today and everything will work. You can even make it a requirement 
for projects that you control. But don't expect all other projects to do 
so also as they may not care.