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

On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 08:56, Erik Faye-Lund [off-list ref] wrote:

On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 3:40 PM, Michael Witten [off-list ref] wrote:

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On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 08:08, Jakub Narebski [off-list ref] wrote:

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First, the user.name and user.email does not need to be name and email
from some email account.  It might be some "canonical name" and
"canonical email".

The vast majority of patches come in through email; the git tools
expect the user.name and user.email to reflect physical email account
information.

What git tools would that be?

Anything involving emailed patches.

The only one I know of that does
anything near assuming that is git send-email, and it only uses
user.email if neither sendemail.from is configured nor --from option
is specified. And even when it does, it prompts the user so it can be
changed if called from a terminal. So I wouldn't say that it assumes
anything about the "physicalness" of user.email, it just uses it's as
the most sane default unless anything else has been specified.

It's useless to spoof the From field because many email services won't
send it, a point I already covered in the email you quoted.

When a patch is finally emailed, it's the From field that is used for
Author attribution.

You see? Your identity has been tied to whatever email service you
happen to use at any given time rather than to something with more
long term stability.