From: Linus Torvalds Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 19:20:10 GMT Subject: Re: What's in a name? Let's use a (uuid,name,email) triplet Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <9e4733911003181216m59a09ad6y6c7c890714d0d20b@mail.gmail.com> On Thu, 18 Mar 2010, Jon Smirl wrote: > > I happen to think that the concept of privacy and working on an open > source project are fairly incompatible. But apparently their are > people who think otherwise. The use would be to reconstruct that > mailmap I made, but with the email addresses replaced with SHA1 hashes > of the email. No human would use the SHA1s, they're just there to > obscure the emails. I really see that as a bad thing, not a good thing. It's like enabling some crazy shit and making it official. If you don't want to reveal your real name, use a fake address. Just don't expect anybody to want to work with you. The LAST thing we want is built-in git support for doing f*cking stupid things. You can do stupid things with it on your own without us helping and encouraging you. Linus