On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 9:59 AM, Michael Witten <mfwitten@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I've shown immense patience repeatedly explaining No, you haven't. _You_ are misunderstanding. We have what you want: email + name, and a mapping mechanism (mailmap) to cope with variations. It is good enough. > Indeed, the only thing that makes this great idea a bad idea is > COMPATIBILITY CONCERNS; that's it. Good... at last! But don't put ALL CAPS when you are in the wrong, mate. And wasting a lot of people's time. 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