On Mar 24, 2010, at 11:57 PM, Mike.lifeguard wrote: > > Git gives attribution by a "name" and an "email" - however several > contributors I work with are uncomfortable giving that information. I > can easily use a pseudonym (I do so for myself), but is there any way to > not have an email? Or shall I just use "not@xxxxxxxxxx"? Most projects want some kind of way of communicator with their contributors; and some kind of accountability with their contributors. Otherwise, how do you know whether said contributor isn't a Chinese intelligence agent trying to insert a backdoor into your program by submitting change using techniques demonstrated by the Underhanded C contest[1]? :-) [1] http://underhanded.xcott.com/ Of course, someone can easily claim any random name, and it's not hard to get a mail account; you could pick a random name like "Mike Lifeguard", and get a gmail account, for example. :-) On the Internet, no one knows whether you are a dog. (Or a Chinese secret agent. :-) But if someone isn't willing to give even an e-mail address, I would think even the most lax project would probably want to think twice about whether to accept patches from this contributor.... -- Ted -- 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