On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 04:45:38AM -0700, david@xxxxxxx wrote: > here is where you are missing the point. > > no, there is not 'much less chance' of it getting messed up. > > you seem to assume that people would never need to set the UUID on > multiple machines. > > if they don't need to set it on multiple machines, then the > e-mail/userid is going to be reliable anyway > > if they do need to set it on multiple machines and can't be bothered > to keep their e-mail consistant, why would they bother keeping this > additional thing considtant? Linus is pointing out that people don't > care now about their e-mail and name, and will care even less about > some abstract UUID > > people who care will already make their e-mail consistant. While I don't agree with the need for that uuid thing, I'd like to pinpoint that people who care can't necessarily make their e-mail consistant. For example, Linus used to use an @osdl.org address, and he now uses an @linux-foundation.org address. It's still the same Linus, but the (name, email) pair has legitimately changed. Mike -- 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