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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] anonymous id
From: |
Joshua Haberman |
Subject: |
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] anonymous id |
Date: |
Thu, 30 Oct 2003 08:49:55 -0800 |
On Thu, 2003-10-30 at 03:27, Thomas Zander wrote:
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> On Thursday 30 October 2003 11:45, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> > >>>>> "Tez" == Tez Kamihira <address@hidden> writes:
> >
> > Tez> I made a tiny work to get rid of this problem. Using this
> > Tez> patch, tla makes some random ID just like "Anonyous
> > Tez> <address@hidden>" where GGGG is so-called GUID or UUID.
> >
> > Tez> I don't know what kind of influences does it cause in the
> > Tez> whole tla system. Is it harmful ? harmless ? or stupid idea ?
> >
> > I think this is bad because that ID is silently used in logs. People
> > will set the id and forget it, and then they may end up with an
> > archive full of GoodStuff[tm] with anonymized log messages.
>
> CVS has managed using the username for years; if you claim that it is worse
> then thats a bit strange since I can really alter my ID at each commit. So
> your claim that a real email would make it better seems a bit strange.
CVS does not support branching and merging across repository boundaries,
and therefore does not have the burden of making ID strings globally
unique. Using a username for an ID string is certainly insufficient.
Josh
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: anonymous id, (continued)
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] anonymous id, Mark A. Flacy, 2003/10/30
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: anonymous id, Miles Bader, 2003/10/30
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: anonymous id, Mark A. Flacy, 2003/10/30
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] anonymous id, Ollivier Robert, 2003/10/30
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] anonymous id, zander, 2003/10/30
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] anonymous id, Florian Weimer, 2003/10/30
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] anonymous id, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2003/10/30
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] anonymous id, Florian Weimer, 2003/10/30