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 17:55:08 -0400 Message-ID: <46a038f91003181455u7136e011u5352c996384f086d@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> <46a038f91003181439lc343dafl6b9321a0b620de84@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 23:18:43 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 1NsO39-0000X8-6V for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Thu, 18 Mar 2010 23:18:43 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752450Ab0CRWSe (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Mar 2010 18:18:34 -0400 Received: from mail-gy0-f174.google.com ([209.85.160.174]:39875 "EHLO mail-gy0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751692Ab0CRWSd (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Mar 2010 18:18:33 -0400 Received: by gyg8 with SMTP id 8so1245649gyg.19 for ; Thu, 18 Mar 2010 15:18:32 -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=R7vpZbKJw2hB2HtAfDpyx/ZzpUCSYaIIic/sre4CPg4=; b=xXWvZvMWB0NP/9pqGGqUYypdivIZeGm8kKVnWalAOJQDgcuqTbp7BBcJuzYYb7MKqh 5RS1NWVBVaUCkYEi4tdMgS6TucAlMdb7ikxTYgR7O4rU8Uwu+GFL+rP6GuieOdOpiDPU v03nBqlkri/dA+2vjs5M6tNwNP1MIra/Md4H4= 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=lPkuMjN4rLKwYFHZJ129hmFNK+IK7kbTd8R+jcByioZLCzhe1vjsh9Q1Y1UgpqGp7Y 2s6mMXfSiY/YVvw8VzGG29lcVgYXLMz44ZpZEP74j+AXet87BYEw1QJGelDWCVUbU8Lg V89XOxWZWbR2k3/eXSMObjQwNccaz7uh+a7NQ= Received: by 10.101.8.37 with SMTP id l37mr5184953ani.233.1268949328082; Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:55:28 -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 5:46 PM, Michael Witten 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