From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael Witten Subject: Re: What's in a name? Let's use a (uuid,name,email) triplet Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 16:57:52 -0500 Message-ID: References: <4ba2293f.c5c2f10a.5e9c.5c4a@mx.google.com> <4ba27424.9804cc0a.4b1f.11b1@mx.google.com> <20100318204416.GM8256@thunk.org> <46a038f91003181419n5d076bdbv18e32e292d7937a8@mail.gmail.com> <46a038f91003181439lc343dafl6b9321a0b620de84@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Cc: tytso@mit.edu, Linus Torvalds , Nicolas Pitre , Wincent Colaiuta , git@vger.kernel.org To: Martin Langhoff X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Mar 18 22:58:30 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 1NsNjQ-0007Bl-W2 for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Thu, 18 Mar 2010 22:58:21 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752163Ab0CRV6P (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Mar 2010 17:58:15 -0400 Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com ([72.14.220.156]:19514 "EHLO fg-out-1718.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752056Ab0CRV6O (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Mar 2010 17:58:14 -0400 Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id l26so2850030fgb.1 for ; Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:58:12 -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 :from:date:message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type; bh=p8b5MXEGrOrCvBcMtkbHxDBAXk2QgwmBOfVMAqPskUg=; b=Tow0w7BZnQYkaqdakvC1Mqzd79XZPJmRBCCbI9DRjy/iqO53/q7b8SxHqs/C4Sbpg7 jhwhTr1jbE6F8xs9HKdQR9UFjYm9zuukinMj466S6N+cHwXeWoVDD5rK2pf6CuOT/x/a UZzCU+XSOp1PZCssnUmOnLtxvh2fZBv5ouejo= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type; b=OiQhVBa02XFjVG91/E5ILHfiqfos9zO9GX6Y4jKfw8F+W91meCb39R+XKHv96xURnB nbAtSn9aQLus+YeP2Ll7josmljcdTRbz79vdWMnhP6993O+LKBuWkcSOxdi4zjhqDy8D khYqCF6LFCz1AbWEjR8xq+pwesKN9yCQmlVLo= Received: by 10.239.183.147 with SMTP id u19mr198940hbg.106.1268949492245; Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:58:12 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <46a038f91003181439lc343dafl6b9321a0b620de84@mail.gmail.com> 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 16:39, Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 5:29 PM, Michael Witten 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 ". > > 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 " 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.