From: Holger Hellmuth <hellmuth@ira.uka.de>
To: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Cc: Mahmoud Asshole <a1209145@drdrb.net>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Silly time stamps
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2014 15:19:49 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5347EBF5.102@ira.uka.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5347CD22.9010003@alum.mit.edu>
Am 11.04.2014 13:08, schrieb Michael Haggerty:
> On 04/09/2014 10:50 PM, Mahmoud Asshole wrote:
>> [...]
>
> Please conduct your discussions here in a civil tone. It is both more
> pleasant for all involved and also more likely to elicit a response. I
> hardly think that the "waste" of 12 bytes in every commit is an act of
> stupidity so inexcusable that it would deserve your bile, even *if* one
> were to agree that this information is useless (which I personally don't
> think).
I would guess he is more concerned about the unnecessary disclosure of
information that could be used to track or (together with other data)
identify you.
Since the reasons to include it seem to be specifically to know more
about the comitter this seems to me the typical conflict between privacy
and security.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-04-11 13:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-04-09 20:50 Silly time stamps Mahmoud Asshole
2014-04-11 11:08 ` Michael Haggerty
2014-04-11 13:19 ` Holger Hellmuth [this message]
2014-04-11 15:14 ` Max Horn
2014-04-11 16:29 ` Holger Hellmuth
2014-04-11 15:23 ` Philip Oakley
2014-04-14 18:00 ` Andreas Krey
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