On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 5:29 PM, Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com> wrote:
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> 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@gmail.com>".

So you are saying we should change the core datamodel of git to say...
what we already can say?

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> 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
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