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

On Thu, 18 Mar 2010, Jon Smirl wrote:

We could hash people emails and then build a .mailmap equivalent thus
hiding their identity.

So? Why? What's the advantage?

I literally _only_ see disadvantages to the whole thing. If the uuid has 
some meaning (ie it's related to actual _real_ information), then it is 
nothing but a really inconvenient placeholder for the real information, 
adn another source of new problems (like "how do we know they are in 
sync? I edit the .gitconfig file by hand all the time").

And if it doesn't have meaning, then it's just annoying and will never 
ever be attached to anything relevant long-term.

Either way, there are only downsides, no upsides. There is absolutely _no_ 
way that teh uuid would ever actually encode any real meaningful 
information that isn't better represented by the name/email.

			Linus