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 19:26:13 -0400 Message-ID: <9e4733911003181626t7d143903mbc5737ff2fa5100f@mail.gmail.com> References: <4ba2293f.c5c2f10a.5e9c.5c4a@mx.google.com> <46a038f91003181536ib3b74f8o40603a4cee13d62b@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Martin Langhoff , Linus Torvalds , Michael Witten , git@vger.kernel.org To: Nicolas Pitre X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Mar 19 00:26:24 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 1NsP6d-0004kp-Us for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:26:24 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751795Ab0CRX0Q convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Mar 2010 19:26:16 -0400 Received: from mail-qy0-f182.google.com ([209.85.221.182]:64785 "EHLO mail-qy0-f182.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751203Ab0CRX0P convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Mar 2010 19:26:15 -0400 Received: by qyk12 with SMTP id 12so616464qyk.5 for ; Thu, 18 Mar 2010 16:26:14 -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=ERDFgeKk0bJFDa2YmWx/zzupU/51cbm3HOlnGcpNCkg=; b=niCvbFYizGL6gXApJ5+tRhtUeAMmZ/zdxkgXSm9N2xalDlms7+Q9Iihu8H089mQnHN XLxQCzCoZuFrlswiMm/ma154eS3v7Qc+oNfLie+fMNv2UEx2zhjFGAmCRJUGiNQK3J+5 Mt9/gisMIrN3wknNIzhQ/+L8OIckkqJ2mWvs0= 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=Au2zWEGT3gwLuIuJSYTlTZQ1wpr2lVn5KGJ2r1oORmhQ0QpsetVvxdGyJ+OYcNCK1/ wUb8HhlUA0FetzZgIlWub/Xz+8Z8Wst+Gs4uVEQlm1GElucmCJEkzByN26yLjja+OHEW syE5DVKJtrDOBmfgiwNJmyy3zEBffx4HL2YgU= Received: by 10.224.59.134 with SMTP id l6mr996096qah.224.1268954773896; Thu, 18 Mar 2010 16:26:13 -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 7:17 PM, Nicolas Pitre wrote= : > On Thu, 18 Mar 2010, Martin Langhoff wrote: > >> 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 goo= d >> idea (which it is not), implementing it means a flag day: changing i= n >> the pack format, wire protocol and APIs, messing up with compatibili= ty >> with users of pre-flag-day git, and rippling out to all the GUIs, >> frontends and integration scripts out there. > > And nobody yet mentioned what should happen when someone sends a patc= h > by email. =A0Most commits in git.git originated from a patch sent via > email. =A0Should we start pasting UUIDs in the email body? =A0What if= the > cut & paste was quickly done and the UUID is missing a character or t= wo? > Because this does happen. =A0And because this UUID thing is supposed = to be > a perfect identity representation then we'll need a .uuidmap to corre= ct > such mistakes of course. > > Better improve on the existing .mailmap instead. If anyone is interested I can send them a .mailmap that fixes a lot of the problems in the kernel tree. It's two years old so it will need updating. > > > Nicolas > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at =A0http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > --=20 Jon Smirl jonsmirl@gmail.com