From: Michael Witten Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 23:34:57 GMT Subject: Re: What's in a name? Let's use a (uuid,name,email) triplet Message-ID: In-Reply-To: On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 18:17, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > On Thu, 18 Mar 2010, Martin Langhoff wrote: > >> On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 1:27 PM, Linus Torvalds >> 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. Actually, those points were touched upon earlier (including my rebuttals).