Re: What's in a name? Let's use a (uuid,name,email) triplet
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Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com>
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- Mar 18, 2010, 19:42 UTC
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On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 3:32 PM, Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 14:07, Linus Torvalds > <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote: > >> And if it doesn't have meaning, then it's just >> annoying and will never ever be attached to >> anything relevant long-term. > > You've actually just described the current name/email system.
WTH are you drinking? I have been using my current name and email accounts for many years.
They are useful for git and for some things that are even more useful -- like addressing emails! My best CV is googing for my name / email addresses -- it will show you my professional career. Including the time that Linus called my patch "idiotic" :-)
So, these things are attached to something meaningful: my long term personal identity. A git-only "uuid"? Screw that, I hack on too many physically different machines, I am not going to be carrying around a magic string.
cheers,
m
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