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

El 18/03/2010, a las 20:32, Michael Witten escribió:

On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 14:07, Linus Torvalds
[off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

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

You've actually just described the current name/email system.

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.

You see, the problem is that the name/email pair isn't really an
identifier; it's actually just info about the user's current email
account, which is very useful for everyday workflow, but pretty naive
for historical identification over long periods of time.

This whole thing is a stupid idea.

If users can't even be bothered keeping a stable email address, what makes you think that they can be assed "doing the right thing" with respect to a meaningless UUID string?

The idea is complicated, over-engineered, brings no benefit and adds only cruft.

W