On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 3:32 PM, Michael Witten <mfwitten@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 14:07, Linus Torvalds > <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> 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. WTH are you drinking? I have been using my current name and email accounts for many years. They are useful for git and for some things that are even more useful -- like addressing emails! My best CV is googing for my name / email addresses -- it will show you my professional career. Including the time that Linus called my patch "idiotic" :-) So, these things are attached to something meaningful: my long term personal identity. A git-only "uuid"? Screw that, I hack on too many physically different machines, I am not going to be carrying around a magic string. cheers, m -- martin.langhoff@xxxxxxxxx martin@xxxxxxxxxx -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html