On Thu, 18 Mar 2010, Jon Smirl wrote: > > Go ahead and commit that .mailmap I made. It really cleans up the > statistics by fixing 500 errors is people's names. Just don't point > the ensuing flame war at me, your hide is tougher. How hard is it to understand the notion of "people just don't _care_ enough"? Look at CVS. Look at three _decades_ of CVS. Then look at the "identifiers" that thing used. Git is much better. Git is better for two reasons: - We allow/encourage people to use way more meaningful identifiers - Exactly _because_ what we use is meaningful to people, most people bother to try. And you don't seem to understand that whole "meaningful" part. If you don't have the social understanding of how people actually _work_, then nothing I say can explain it. Let me try one more time: do the statistics on "committer information" vs "author information" on the Linux kernel repository, and count the types of errors that happen. I can explain the errors and why they happen, and it has everything to do with how _humans_work_ (*). If you don't understand that, then there's no point in arguing. Linus (*) I'll give you one answer in the next email. But before you read that email, try to think about it, and see if you can guess at patterns. -- 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