From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Holger Hellmuth Subject: Re: Silly time stamps Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2014 15:19:49 +0200 Message-ID: <5347EBF5.102@ira.uka.de> References: <5347CD22.9010003@alum.mit.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Mahmoud Asshole , git@vger.kernel.org To: Michael Haggerty X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Apr 11 15:31:43 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WYbYU-0005sh-Ly for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Fri, 11 Apr 2014 15:31:43 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756287AbaDKNbT (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Apr 2014 09:31:19 -0400 Received: from iramx2.ira.uni-karlsruhe.de ([141.3.10.81]:54730 "EHLO iramx2.ira.uni-karlsruhe.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754382AbaDKNbS (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Apr 2014 09:31:18 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 959 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Fri, 11 Apr 2014 09:31:18 EDT Received: from i20s141.iaks.uni-karlsruhe.de ([141.3.32.141] helo=[172.16.22.120]) by iramx2.ira.uni-karlsruhe.de with esmtpsa port 587 iface 141.3.10.79 id 1WYbIJ-0007Bq-VL; Fri, 11 Apr 2014 15:15:00 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130329 Thunderbird/17.0.5 In-Reply-To: <5347CD22.9010003@alum.mit.edu> X-ATIS-AV: ClamAV (iramx2.ira.uni-karlsruhe.de) X-ATIS-Timestamp: iramx2.ira.uni-karlsruhe.de esmtpsa 1397222100. X-ATIS-Timestamp: iramx2.ira.uni-karlsruhe.de esmtpsa 1397223061. Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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.