Re: What's in a name? Let's use a (uuid,name,email) triplet

[Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 3:32 PM, Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 14:07, Linus Torvalds
> <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
>> And if it doesn't have meaning, then it's just
>> annoying and will never ever be attached to
>> anything relevant long-term.
>
> You've actually just described the current name/email system.

WTH are you drinking? I have been using my current name and email
accounts for many years.

They are useful for git and for some things that are even more useful
-- like addressing emails! My best CV is googing for my name / email
addresses -- it will show you my professional career. Including the
time that Linus called my patch "idiotic" :-)

So, these things are attached to something meaningful: my long term
personal identity. A git-only "uuid"? Screw that, I hack on too many
physically different machines, I am not going to be carrying around a
magic string.

cheers,


m
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