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

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On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 5:12 PM, Michael Witten <mfwitten@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> This is all that I'm saying: Keep git exactly the way it is, but add
> one extra piece of identifying information for each person.

What's the value? For me it'll be "Martin Langhoff". I already have that.

> Nothing is being taken away.

But something is added.

Good design is not when there's nothing more to add, it's when there's
nothing left _to remove_.

Git is what it is thanks to removing superfluous crud from its core
datamodel. Don't be surprised that there is a very strong resistance
to adding anything to that datamodel.

> Essentially, the goal is to distribute the task of maintaining aliases.

Already achieved with mailcap. No need to mess with the secret of
git's success (the tight datamodel).

cheers,



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