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: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 07:59:40 -0600 Message-ID: References: <46a038f91003181439lc343dafl6b9321a0b620de84@mail.gmail.com> <4BA36F5F.9080706@gnu.org> <4BA373C0.2070506@gnu.org> <4BA3776B.5040706@gnu.org> <873DD7AF-6D5C-4F5F-BDC1-1F26480D412F@wincent.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Paolo Bonzini , git@vger.kernel.org To: Wincent Colaiuta X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Mar 19 15:00:17 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 1NsckK-0001l2-TX for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:00:17 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752400Ab0CSOAI convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Mar 2010 10:00:08 -0400 Received: from mail-fx0-f219.google.com ([209.85.220.219]:48686 "EHLO mail-fx0-f219.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752327Ab0CSOAB convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Mar 2010 10:00:01 -0400 Received: by fxm19 with SMTP id 19so615504fxm.21 for ; Fri, 19 Mar 2010 07:00:00 -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 :content-transfer-encoding; bh=B760i3JpkNreE88+iE7NnXwtKlj/ai8+MIyIet2yUOA=; b=Ftfl5WUWG/pvcjJJJv+RntdF7l6m5XcS3pogQZ/ZxFugWoTmv3K7ieM0ljbc42PKWi mfakPgreYRFwxgEGK6eqUWyIGx0O0B+60rrYiyJ45H9qA/7jlfsTiuVVvIEMcjcYTUal +fR6+Fls6xrIE8RFOyogGdWyIfW5Y6zJ04M0M= 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:content-transfer-encoding; b=MwMIw/KFVksBYir0osa9qA9d+2iy6Pv7ZkSGjVylgTzh/nDpjDwgsvIj+sGJ7Qg8Wx wJVhOAHv2w7hvga89aw/R6SKzLOcRtJjxsjJWZ9gj+wYVtOe8h7UNE4yneyIXNSjCSVV GCbmWal6cWD60mGMtv7ci7z1S2K8iOzwosVcU= Received: by 10.239.192.65 with SMTP id d1mr1653495hbi.197.1269007200202; Fri, 19 Mar 2010 07:00:00 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <873DD7AF-6D5C-4F5F-BDC1-1F26480D412F@wincent.com> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 07:41, Wincent Colaiuta wrote= : > El 19/03/2010, a las 14:13, Michael Witten escribi=C3=B3: > >> On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 07:08, Paolo Bonzini wrote= : >>> Maybe you have to define entropy. =C2=A0For human consumers, "Paolo= Bonzini >>> " has considerably less "entropy" than >>> 8aacc35ffca0d34fccf8a750e84e3a81bdcb940b, as does even "Paolo Bonzi= ni >>> ". =C2=A0For non-human consum= ers, a good >>> mailmap will do. >> >> As I've stated before many times, the SHA-1 is not necessary to the = proposal. >> >> Please go read. > > Stop telling people to go read your idiotic proposal. It has _already= _ been read with great attention, and multiple people have shown immens= e patience repeatedly explaining to you why the idea is stupid. Your co= ntinued trolling is really starting to grate. I've shown immense patience repeatedly explaining why these 'explanations' are strawmen or based on misunderstandings and bad assumptions. It's true that I have been receiving perfectly valid complaints. The problem is that almost all of them have nothing to do with what I've been saying because people see 'uuid' and a few examples with hex digits and then erroneously construct the rest in their heads. > The overwhelming, sustained opposition to your idea should already be= enough indication that such a proposal will _never_ be accepted into t= he Git codebase, so right now you're just wasting people's time. I long ago gave up the notion that it would be included in the git code= base. Instead, I've been defending the idea, which is a simple but vast improvement over the current system; had it been in place since the beginning, a lot of trouble could have been reduced. Indeed, the only thing that makes this great idea a bad idea is COMPATIBILITY CONCERNS; that's it.