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

On Thu, 18 Mar 2010, Jon Smirl wrote:

Go ahead and commit that .mailmap I made. It really cleans up the
statistics by fixing 500 errors is people's names. Just don't point
the ensuing flame war at me, your hide is tougher.

How hard is it to understand the notion of "people just don't _care_ 
enough"?

Look at CVS. Look at three _decades_ of CVS. Then look at the 
"identifiers" that thing used. 

Git is much better. Git is better for two reasons:

 - We allow/encourage people to use way more meaningful identifiers

 - Exactly _because_ what we use is meaningful to people, most people 
   bother to try.

And you don't seem to understand that whole "meaningful" part. If you 
don't have the social understanding of how people actually _work_, then 
nothing I say can explain it.

Let me try one more time: do the statistics on "committer information" vs 
"author information" on the Linux kernel repository, and count the types 
of errors that happen. I can explain the errors and why they happen, and 
it has everything to do with how _humans_work_ (*).

If you don't understand that, then there's no point in arguing.

			Linus

(*) I'll give you one answer in the next email. But before you read that 
email, try to think about it, and see if you can guess at patterns.