Re: Why can't git-rebase back up?

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Feb 18, 2006, 14:53 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0602181545450.3483@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <20060218130056.14228.qmail@science.horizon.com>

Hi,

On Sat, 18 Feb 2006, linux@horizon.com wrote:

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> > BTW, why are we suddenly having many nameless people on this
> > list, I wonder...
> 
> Oh, you know, possibilities like:
> 
> - I'm sick of being googled and quizzed about every off-the-cuff
>   remark I've ever made.
> - My real name is not pronouncable by earthlings.
> - My embittered ex joe-jobs me with porn spam whenever he finds a new
>   e-mail address for me.
> - My day job has licensed BitKeeper and I don't want hassles from
>   His Larryness.
> - I'm am illegal immigrant and I don't want to get noticed by la Migra.
> - My name is Jamal Al-Gashey and it's *so* not worth it.

- I'm working for NSA, and my name is classified.
- If people knew who I am, they would fault me for my starting a war, 
  instead of commenting on my patches.
- I could use a pseudonym, but that would be a lie, and since you cannot 
  tell if it is a pseudonym to begin with, it is an even bigger lie, and 
  if I did not use a pseudonym, you could mistake it for one, and I could
  not live with that lie at all. (Recurse ad infinitum.)

Having said all that, I think it is important to provide a real and traceable name with patches (at least patches which do not do obvious things, like fix typos). If only for the reason that incompetent and malign people like to sue not only each other.

Ciao, Dscho