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 5:46 PM, Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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?
>
> Again:
>
>>> At worst, things will be just like they have always been.

Of course we all read that line. You are proposing a change that will
mean a flag day -- that is, old versions of git won't be able to read
"new" repositories (and "new" git will have to be backwards compat for
X releases...). This is major breakage.

Inflict a painful change on our userbase for... what exactly? Ah, "At
worst, things will be just like they have always been."

I don't think you understand what you've been proposing.

Is it clearer now why you get a clear "no" from all quarters? Huge
cost, no upside?



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