Re: What's in a name? Let's use a (uuid,name,email) triplet

[Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 16:39, Martin Langhoff
<martin.langhoff@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 5:29 PM, Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 16:19, Martin Langhoff
>>> What's the value? For me it'll be "Martin Langhoff". I already have that.
>>
>> Well, that's rather egotistical considering you're probably not the
>> only Martin Langhoff in this world. I'd advocate something like
>> "Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com>".
>
> So you are saying we should change the core datamodel of git to say...
> what we already can say?

You see, Martin, you might want/need to stop using "Martin Langhoff
<martin.langhoff@gmail.com>" as your email account, but there's no
reason why you can't continue to use it for your UUID.

>> At worst, things will be just like they have always been.
>
> No, we'll have another way to have data mismatches. There are _more_
> moving parts in your model. That's what Linus is pointing out.

Mismatches in UUIDs will be the only thing worth worrying about;
fortunately, UUIDs won't change as frequently because they would be
rarely typed by git users and they are not subject to changing email
systems or changing names.