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: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 10:13:14 -0400 Message-ID: <46a038f91003190713m5d99a38fo898d9d2391103f3@mail.gmail.com> References: <4BA36F5F.9080706@gnu.org> <4BA373C0.2070506@gnu.org> <4BA3776B.5040706@gnu.org> <873DD7AF-6D5C-4F5F-BDC1-1F26480D412F@wincent.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: Wincent Colaiuta , Paolo Bonzini , git@vger.kernel.org To: Michael Witten X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Mar 19 15:13:42 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 1NscxJ-0002Aa-82 for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:13:42 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752688Ab0CSONg (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Mar 2010 10:13:36 -0400 Received: from mail-gy0-f174.google.com ([209.85.160.174]:53816 "EHLO mail-gy0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752362Ab0CSONf (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Mar 2010 10:13:35 -0400 Received: by gyg8 with SMTP id 8so1582069gyg.19 for ; Fri, 19 Mar 2010 07:13:34 -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=Ue5am+8YJZWTDqXilcpY1/XL0CSgeUVKSD0l3k5U6pY=; b=ruVzUseHO8M6cxMsDKiJ/ih1XwGoHgetWniyrIpPXK/LRMIdl1ms2RFMmz5NDzm7W5 JBlMXwjBNCTj43Oa56hX8M8e8suinQSZk9FM5mmbJctYzgx8HOYJr4n+qX8iXUL+BjB8 5C6FdiR0Cn0XCvpQtUQ1gRn38L2bjtKwJS0K8= 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=uUUdGUPq+45FwjbMNBQPtytElr2AAq/jiQmmkykRg3i0yqK3CMRc3XQYLJJiPGkZQX k+/5yCnH3ju+P9RuogYwp/bU73bK1EOgvRU0TDlDpLhcBP+1ml5YAshpRQqXswrrd+Ut Z8v+bgAW++lQvpVNAqPUtiRLFMBnW0aAmkuR0= Received: by 10.101.195.14 with SMTP id x14mr7324003anp.200.1269008014087; Fri, 19 Mar 2010 07:13:34 -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 Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 9:59 AM, Michael Witten wrote: > I've shown immense patience repeatedly explaining No, you haven't. _You_ are misunderstanding. We have what you want: email + name, and a mapping mechanism (mailmap) to cope with variations. It is good enough. > Indeed, the only thing that makes this great idea a bad idea is > COMPATIBILITY CONCERNS; that's it. Good... at last! But don't put ALL CAPS when you are in the wrong, mate. And wasting a lot of people's time. 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