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 17:39:02 -0400 Message-ID: <46a038f91003181439lc343dafl6b9321a0b620de84@mail.gmail.com> References: <4ba2293f.c5c2f10a.5e9c.5c4a@mx.google.com> <4ba27424.9804cc0a.4b1f.11b1@mx.google.com> <20100318204416.GM8256@thunk.org> <46a038f91003181419n5d076bdbv18e32e292d7937a8@mail.gmail.com> 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 22:39:32 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 1NsNRC-0004FC-MZ for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Thu, 18 Mar 2010 22:39:31 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752502Ab0CRVjZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Mar 2010 17:39:25 -0400 Received: from mail-gw0-f46.google.com ([74.125.83.46]:47324 "EHLO mail-gw0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752143Ab0CRVjY (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Mar 2010 17:39:24 -0400 Received: by gwaa12 with SMTP id a12so1074316gwa.19 for ; Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:39:22 -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=Gyv4IOBcb6/nCWNlKD5mVdKuCBriV/He7PtXnnuBM1Y=; b=IKayZplJ3+iJM8uFZYXy0Nzwr0e4RlHYcNVg9k6J8KEFryr24r3cesA0IZY43C9Zcu e3fsPF4386t8KashjFFeboluqcwEP0KrxPnGyi59elcml++/FlRm020Da+skFUcJIvYW kBcj9HltZcPG45oQe+8WFbKTuLGZ8YDrQLQK8= 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=rTtMqMoHUcNG508bhu4ZHMrcU0zlyZnpSUaXyoje/IVrjHuo5TRwp3uUZpCOUCXKa8 Cxv/650bvjyuNEyR3ItB8xeOnG3jPUOGHAilrJzNiEdelhmtS5VKtPFqN14xG+utSvTk 0llFsaHw3LnJ2LrxCG3AwwVby27pgVzvqmj/s= Received: by 10.101.39.1 with SMTP id r1mr5130498anj.101.1268948362184; Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:39:22 -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 5:29 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? > 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. This is a case where an ancillary "fixup table", in the form of mailmap, works best. Don't move the fixup table to the core of the datamodel, it just doesn't belong there. Here's a hint: using your "uuid" model, I'll get some commits into a project with the wrong uuid. Because I made a typo, or changed machines (and a random uuid got created), whatever reason. So now in my project I appear under 2 uuids. What should we do in that case? Use mailmap to map the stray uuid to the "real" one?... Have we done a lot of work to get back to square 0? 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