Re: What's in a name? Let's use a (uuid,name,email) triplet
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Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>
- Date
- Mar 18, 2010, 23:17 UTC
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On Thu, 18 Mar 2010, Martin Langhoff wrote:
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> On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 1:27 PM, Linus Torvalds > <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote: > > Even shorter version: NO. > > One thing we all forgot to mention here is that even if it was a good > idea (which it is not), implementing it means a flag day: changing in > the pack format, wire protocol and APIs, messing up with compatibility > with users of pre-flag-day git, and rippling out to all the GUIs, > frontends and integration scripts out there.
And nobody yet mentioned what should happen when someone sends a patch by email. Most commits in git.git originated from a patch sent via email. Should we start pasting UUIDs in the email body? What if the cut & paste was quickly done and the UUID is missing a character or two? Because this does happen. And because this UUID thing is supposed to be a perfect identity representation then we'll need a .uuidmap to correct such mistakes of course.
Better improve on the existing .mailmap instead.
Nicolas