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

On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 5:29 PM, Michael Witten [off-list ref] wrote:

On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 16:19, Martin Langhoff

quoted

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

Well, that's rather egotistical considering you're probably not the
only Martin Langhoff in this world. I'd advocate something like
"Martin Langhoff [off-list ref]".

So you are saying we should change the core datamodel of git to say...
what we already can say?

At worst, things will be just like they have always been.

No, we'll have another way to have data mismatches. There are _more_
moving parts in your model. That's what Linus is pointing out.

This is a case where an ancillary "fixup table", in the form of
mailmap, works best. Don't move the fixup table to the core of the
datamodel, it just doesn't belong there.

Here's a hint: using your "uuid" model, I'll get some commits into a
project with the wrong uuid. Because I made a typo, or changed
machines (and a random uuid got created), whatever reason. So now in
my project I appear under 2 uuids.

What should we do in that case? Use mailmap to map the stray uuid to
the "real" one?... Have we done a lot of work to get back to square 0?

cheers,


m
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