From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jon Smirl Subject: Re: What's in a name? Let's use a (uuid,name,email) triplet Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 15:37:58 -0400 Message-ID: <9e4733911003181237i56a00a78k31fac2c1afe5a674@mail.gmail.com> References: <4ba2293f.c5c2f10a.5e9c.5c4a@mx.google.com> <9e4733911003181202h23b3d702xce8fc0670a994d52@mail.gmail.com> <9e4733911003181216m59a09ad6y6c7c890714d0d20b@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Michael Witten , git@vger.kernel.org To: Linus Torvalds X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Mar 18 20:38:36 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 1NsLY6-0004mW-LQ for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Thu, 18 Mar 2010 20:38:31 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752465Ab0CRTiF convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Mar 2010 15:38:05 -0400 Received: from qw-out-2122.google.com ([74.125.92.27]:60204 "EHLO qw-out-2122.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752449Ab0CRTiB convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Mar 2010 15:38:01 -0400 Received: by qw-out-2122.google.com with SMTP id 8so455860qwh.37 for ; Thu, 18 Mar 2010 12:37:59 -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 :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=ulKuZ7g7tuS3Xq/kGDYmY1QS7hW3mD0fv5ncM6qarvs=; b=WBfkFPXuubBHJRa9S3/+/0lTeLUkSuH9SRcxrHK91K7MErgtQi1/juI5WlXkGZ2G11 P2TLdXIFJ6PQQqMYsykI4iQDsBB4bNRxs3oN7anRWm9am6VfHjWRhUqN4sZJ3uSB/wBy 28OugZw/V2ES66EtCZP7yYdcnmXGbH7jQVEWQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=IfQteHhcYUFhUsKl/sqpwyUyKfRqMocVXXucFNStHQohryxN/H8pJilW037yVfGyUh QONzoPrTDY68FqcfJj9a2j9TS03GswggnwhY/O0C1XWWllFY++2c5NWTGzVuCGet2z+f v/tJLePcnZaN9Uu+IatvDGkX2pYn79rqdfYpQ= Received: by 10.229.235.1 with SMTP id ke1mr837074qcb.3.1268941078515; Thu, 18 Mar 2010 12:37:58 -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 3:20 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Thu, 18 Mar 2010, Jon Smirl wrote: >> >> I happen to think that the concept of privacy and working on an open >> source project are fairly incompatible. But apparently their are >> people who think otherwise. =A0The use would be to reconstruct that >> mailmap I made, but with the email addresses replaced with SHA1 hash= es >> of the email. No human would use the SHA1s, they're just there to >> obscure the emails. > > I really see that as a bad thing, not a good thing. It's like enablin= g > some crazy shit and making it official. > > If you don't want to reveal your real name, use a fake address. Just = don't > expect anybody to want to work with you. Go ahead and commit that .mailmap I made. It really cleans up the statistics by fixing 500 errors is people's names. Just don't point the ensuing flame war at me, your hide is tougher. > The LAST thing we want is built-in git support for doing f*cking stup= id > things. =A0You can do stupid things with it on your own without us he= lping > and encouraging you. > > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0Linus > --=20 Jon Smirl jonsmirl@gmail.com