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 18:36:40 -0400 Message-ID: <46a038f91003181536ib3b74f8o40603a4cee13d62b@mail.gmail.com> References: <4ba2293f.c5c2f10a.5e9c.5c4a@mx.google.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: Michael Witten , git@vger.kernel.org To: Linus Torvalds X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Mar 18 23:37:26 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 1NsOL7-00015l-9N for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Thu, 18 Mar 2010 23:37:17 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751538Ab0CRWhE (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Mar 2010 18:37:04 -0400 Received: from mail-gw0-f46.google.com ([74.125.83.46]:38236 "EHLO mail-gw0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751204Ab0CRWhC (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Mar 2010 18:37:02 -0400 Received: by gwaa12 with SMTP id a12so1098795gwa.19 for ; Thu, 18 Mar 2010 15:37:00 -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=eq8BKrpgs+g+pkVq42GImyRUFJLFe+GnC7R+OJx8YFg=; b=tj84BWQcaF8PLuWBmHbAW3rWIWrqCAXYbgLVEg06So6weAfsVYfJyco1Ul+gyrNulM I3GqLXOM/+vz1oesOHYV/oFp6jlkum/GzKLklYcpEYJyeQpZVwHqIeNQ5LB86xqekO+x 8Q/UOig5kMfiJFSPmXAeMFfsiSKkrZEWXOG7E= 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=YwLb0WnCmRUzin5ChzkYcYGJqyEQdApuXPEIbZ8YrUXiwGXtqoeLzByERnh4lfVNuq q5nxsfsik6l6zT2/CbJqdQjeLa3k1XLkvaJ3HxJB+kHuics1qvax3aggrBXfpn3wZPj8 6n951Q3OqaNQJSbcnEs1vKzUGuZr9TvOfSQ/g= Received: by 10.101.108.6 with SMTP id k6mr5278957anm.162.1268951820282; Thu, 18 Mar 2010 15:37:00 -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 1:27 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Even shorter version: NO. One thing we all forgot to mention here is that even if it was a good idea (which it is not), implementing it means a flag day: changing in the pack format, wire protocol and APIs, messing up with compatibility with users of pre-flag-day git, and rippling out to all the GUIs, frontends and integration scripts out there. A veritable mess that would reberberate for years. Any proposal that touches the core git datamodel... better implement something that is outrageously wondrously good and impossible to do any other way. My guess is that people that parachute into this list and propose datamodel changes haven't thought this aspect through. 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