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

On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 18:17, Nicolas Pitre [off-list ref] wrote:

On Thu, 18 Mar 2010, Martin Langhoff wrote:

quoted

On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 1:27 PM, Linus Torvalds
[off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

Even shorter version: NO.

One thing we all forgot to mention here is that even if it was a good
idea (which it is not), implementing it means a flag day: changing in
the pack format, wire protocol and APIs, messing up with compatibility
with users of pre-flag-day git, and rippling out to all the GUIs,
frontends and integration scripts out there.

And nobody yet mentioned what should happen when someone sends a patch
by email.  Most commits in git.git originated from a patch sent via
email.  Should we start pasting UUIDs in the email body?  What if the
cut & paste was quickly done and the UUID is missing a character or two?
Because this does happen.  And because this UUID thing is supposed to be
a perfect identity representation then we'll need a .uuidmap to correct
such mistakes of course.

Better improve on the existing .mailmap instead.

Actually, those points were touched upon earlier (including my rebuttals).