Re: What's cooking in git.git (Jan 2021, #02; Fri, 8)

From: Emily Shaffer <emilyshaffer@google.com>
Date: Jan 14, 2021, 23:56 UTC
Message-ID: <YADaJ1gfbxQaLGXf@google.com>
In-Reply-To: <YADZSsVqyGnArF0n@google.com>

On Thu, Jan 14, 2021 at 03:52:42PM -0800, Emily Shaffer wrote:

> Fourthly: The perfect solution, as has been mentioned, is to stop using
> user.name/user.email in commits and start using some generic ID instead.

Another throwaway thought:

Taking the time to redesign commit format (e.g. use user.id instead of user.name/user.email) also gives us room to improve other things we don't like about the commit format (e.g. limited to single author). How many things-we-don't-like do we need to collect before we have enough inertia to go through the long/painful process of starting to use a new commit format?