[patch] Use /etc/mailname if available

[Robert Collins]

On Wed, 2005-12-21 at 09:31 -0500, Aaron Bentley wrote:
> >>I would suppose commiter id was was added to revision id as some sort of
> >>collision avoidance for the random revids-- even if you and I both struck
> >>the lottery and generated the same id, we still wouldn't have trouble
> >>because we have different email addresses.
> 
> I don't believe that's the case.  I believe it's strictly for humans to
> use.  You'd have to ask Martin, though.

Yes. The uniqueness properties are useful from a statistical point of
view, but not essential. Its mainly to be a nice hint as to 'who did
this'.

Rob

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