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, 21:55 UTC
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On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 5:46 PM, Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> What should we do in that case? Use mailmap to map the stray uuid to >> the "real" one?... Have we done a lot of work to get back to square 0? > > Again: > >>> At worst, things will be just like they have always been.
Of course we all read that line. You are proposing a change that will mean a flag day -- that is, old versions of git won't be able to read "new" repositories (and "new" git will have to be backwards compat for X releases...). This is major breakage.
Inflict a painful change on our userbase for... what exactly? Ah, "At worst, things will be just like they have always been."
I don't think you understand what you've been proposing.
Is it clearer now why you get a clear "no" from all quarters? Huge cost, no upside?
m
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