From: Michael Witten Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 21:57:52 GMT Subject: Re: What's in a name? Let's use a (uuid,name,email) triplet Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <46a038f91003181439lc343dafl6b9321a0b620de84@mail.gmail.com> On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 16:39, Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 5:29 PM, Michael Witten wrote: >> On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 16:19, Martin Langhoff >>> What's the value? For me it'll be "Martin Langhoff". I already have that. >> >> Well, that's rather egotistical considering you're probably not the >> only Martin Langhoff in this world. I'd advocate something like >> "Martin Langhoff ". > > So you are saying we should change the core datamodel of git to say... > what we already can say? You see, Martin, you might want/need to stop using "Martin Langhoff " as your email account, but there's no reason why you can't continue to use it for your UUID. >> At worst, things will be just like they have always been. > > No, we'll have another way to have data mismatches. There are _more_ > moving parts in your model. That's what Linus is pointing out. Mismatches in UUIDs will be the only thing worth worrying about; fortunately, UUIDs won't change as frequently because they would be rarely typed by git users and they are not subject to changing email systems or changing names.