On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 5:46 PM, Michael Witten <mfwitten@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> 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? > > Again: > >>> At worst, things will be just like they have always been. Of course we all read that line. You are proposing a change that will mean a flag day -- that is, old versions of git won't be able to read "new" repositories (and "new" git will have to be backwards compat for X releases...). This is major breakage. Inflict a painful change on our userbase for... what exactly? Ah, "At worst, things will be just like they have always been." I don't think you understand what you've been proposing. Is it clearer now why you get a clear "no" from all quarters? Huge cost, no upside? 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