On Thu, 18 Mar 2010, Michael Witten wrote: > > What a uuid provides is that very property of long-term attachment; a > git user can change the name/email pair but keep the same uuid. I don't think you understand what "attachment" means. Think about your wife, your kids, or your pet. THAT is attachment. Random 16-letter letter-jumble? No. People will _never_ care. They'll simply not care. It's true that people _already_ don't care too much about their emails, and that typos and simply job changes (or annoying ISP's) will change them. But that would be orders of magnitude _worse_ with something like a uuid. > It IS a name/email pair (if you want or if that is enforced); it's > just one that isn't as volatile. Don't be an idiot. Try to think like a HUMAN. Not a computer scientist. And ponder. It's a _social_ issue, not a "let's tattoo this uuid on everybody". Linus -- 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