From: Martin Langhoff Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 21:19:19 GMT Subject: Re: What's in a name? Let's use a (uuid,name,email) triplet Message-ID: <46a038f91003181419n5d076bdbv18e32e292d7937a8@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 5:12 PM, Michael Witten wrote: > This is all that I'm saying: Keep git exactly the way it is, but add > one extra piece of identifying information for each person. What's the value? For me it'll be "Martin Langhoff". I already have that. > Nothing is being taken away. But something is added. Good design is not when there's nothing more to add, it's when there's nothing left _to remove_. Git is what it is thanks to removing superfluous crud from its core datamodel. Don't be surprised that there is a very strong resistance to adding anything to that datamodel. > Essentially, the goal is to distribute the task of maintaining aliases. Already achieved with mailcap. No need to mess with the secret of git's success (the tight datamodel). cheers, m -- martin.langhoff@gmail.com martin@laptop.org -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff