From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Martin Langhoff Subject: Re: What's in a name? Let's use a (uuid,name,email) triplet Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 17:19:19 -0400 Message-ID: <46a038f91003181419n5d076bdbv18e32e292d7937a8@mail.gmail.com> References: <4ba2293f.c5c2f10a.5e9c.5c4a@mx.google.com> <4ba27424.9804cc0a.4b1f.11b1@mx.google.com> <20100318204416.GM8256@thunk.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: tytso@mit.edu, Linus Torvalds , Nicolas Pitre , Wincent Colaiuta , git@vger.kernel.org To: Michael Witten X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Mar 18 22:19:49 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NsN87-0002MH-3C for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Thu, 18 Mar 2010 22:19:47 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752767Ab0CRVTl (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Mar 2010 17:19:41 -0400 Received: from mail-gw0-f46.google.com ([74.125.83.46]:59259 "EHLO mail-gw0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752618Ab0CRVTj (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Mar 2010 17:19:39 -0400 Received: by gwaa12 with SMTP id a12so1069339gwa.19 for ; Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:19:39 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :from:date:message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type; bh=n140q3xHx8w76JbHAt7P0Tm4QUOottlPIc0bqJKquak=; b=Y3xg5cqTUq19AfGOPISY9pUn15Se/XlH8C9dF1OluMaPLzDkmMY6QNQVeF+ZM3xGoG cDvTEPMYLCXmTDZJ+pUU74jGI6G9JatWDih5dxvnsLcBKF4dgkUn4TPtVYJ3tWoNzWVo N+ipH4OrFRfzjDrqcHv6F6B+EDWSC0VZfabMg= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type; b=EIt/6na8j4MgUJSuEY+mnMYz1xABs3rGOZ30Z1Jk4xB4tFZKdzbtYaQS7w8Vo8RIlx wf9ilHsPH2PN+HKGARPsBKJHnxV2VFdidC3tHp2negx+3f/rKhwVYKUi00lJXFEorCPi rdQWJcKRXCX8NpUxv9qxYKr43YCLYOx/m8gv8= Received: by 10.101.144.26 with SMTP id w26mr5126601ann.205.1268947179108; Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:19:39 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 5:12 PM, Michael Witten wrote: > This is all that I'm saying: Keep git exactly the way it is, but add > one extra piece of identifying information for each person. What's the value? For me it'll be "Martin Langhoff". I already have that. > Nothing is being taken away. But something is added. Good design is not when there's nothing more to add, it's when there's nothing left _to remove_. Git is what it is thanks to removing superfluous crud from its core datamodel. Don't be surprised that there is a very strong resistance to adding anything to that datamodel. > Essentially, the goal is to distribute the task of maintaining aliases. Already achieved with mailcap. No need to mess with the secret of git's success (the tight datamodel). cheers, m -- martin.langhoff@gmail.com martin@laptop.org -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff