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

On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 8:50 PM, Linus Torvalds
[off-list ref] wrote:

Does anybody care? Certainly not I. There is absolutely zero reason to
worry about it. I used to find it convenient to see what machines I had
worked on, so I actually included that. And one of them was clearly
mis-configured, or git did something wrong when the hostname was already
in FQDN format. Whatever.

There is no real _value_ in making a .mailcap for each such buggy entry is
what I'm trying to tell you. Those things are maybe used for statistics.
On the whole, they are correct.

I was trying to track how many real people were working on the kernel.
 If we don't collapse the 13 different versions of you down to one
person the number numbers are way off.

-- 
Jon Smirl
jonsmirl@gmail.com