El 18/03/2010, a las 20:32, Michael Witten escribió: > 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. > > 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. > > You see, the problem is that the name/email pair isn't really an > identifier; it's actually just info about the user's current email > account, which is very useful for everyday workflow, but pretty naive > for historical identification over long periods of time. This whole thing is a stupid idea. If users can't even be bothered keeping a stable email address, what makes you think that they can be assed "doing the right thing" with respect to a meaningless UUID string? The idea is complicated, over-engineered, brings no benefit and adds only cruft. W -- 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