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

On Thu, 18 Mar 2010, Michael Witten wrote:

What a uuid provides is that very property of long-term attachment; a
git user can change the name/email pair but keep the same uuid.

I don't think you understand what "attachment" means.

Think about your wife, your kids, or your pet. THAT is attachment.

Random 16-letter letter-jumble? No. People will _never_ care. They'll 
simply not care. 

It's true that people _already_ don't care too much about their emails, 
and that typos and simply job changes (or annoying ISP's) will change 
them. But that would be orders of magnitude _worse_ with something like a 
uuid.

It IS a name/email pair (if you want or if that is enforced); it's
just one that isn't as volatile.

Don't be an idiot.

Try to think like a HUMAN. Not a computer scientist. And ponder.

It's a _social_ issue, not a "let's tattoo this uuid on everybody".

		Linus