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

On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 5:12 PM, Michael Witten [off-list ref] wrote:

This is all that I'm saying: Keep git exactly the way it is, but add
one extra piece of identifying information for each person.

What's the value? For me it'll be "Martin Langhoff". I already have that.

Nothing is being taken away.

But something is added.

Good design is not when there's nothing more to add, it's when there's
nothing left _to remove_.

Git is what it is thanks to removing superfluous crud from its core
datamodel. Don't be surprised that there is a very strong resistance
to adding anything to that datamodel.

Essentially, the goal is to distribute the task of maintaining aliases.

Already achieved with mailcap. No need to mess with the secret of
git's success (the tight datamodel).

cheers,



m
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