On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 5:29 PM, Michael Witten <mfwitten@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 16:19, Martin Langhoff >> What's the value? For me it'll be "Martin Langhoff". I already have that. > > Well, that's rather egotistical considering you're probably not the > only Martin Langhoff in this world. I'd advocate something like > "Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@xxxxxxxxx>". So you are saying we should change the core datamodel of git to say... what we already can say? > At worst, things will be just like they have always been. No, we'll have another way to have data mismatches. There are _more_ moving parts in your model. That's what Linus is pointing out. This is a case where an ancillary "fixup table", in the form of mailmap, works best. Don't move the fixup table to the core of the datamodel, it just doesn't belong there. Here's a hint: using your "uuid" model, I'll get some commits into a project with the wrong uuid. Because I made a typo, or changed machines (and a random uuid got created), whatever reason. So now in my project I appear under 2 uuids. What should we do in that case? Use mailmap to map the stray uuid to the "real" one?... Have we done a lot of work to get back to square 0? 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