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List:       kde-community
Subject:    Re: Anonymous contributions
From:       Boudewijn Rempt <boud () valdyas ! org>
Date:       2019-04-16 19:45:22
Message-ID: 129633192.5lgXDGIoNd () sebe
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On dinsdag 16 april 2019 21:38:04 CEST Ben Cooksley wrote:

> This hook was implemented in the first place to ensure that people had
> correctly setup Git on their local machine.
> 
> On some versions of Git (maybe all?) it will automatically use the local
> user account name as the name.
> 
> This leads to people committing as "me", "user" and "nobody" without
> meaning to, but which still leads to a situation in which the metadata of a
> commit has ended up being useless.
> 
> I'd rather maintain a small list of exceptions for those who do have names
> without a space in them to ensure that for the vast majority of our users
> do correctly get informed they need to fix their local setup.

You could do a small blacklist of known wrong names like the ones you cite -- but you \
will never be able to implement a hook that identifies a string as a name correctly. \
I'm sorry -- but it's just impossible. 

It's also just not good manners to tell people their name isn't a real name: and I \
think that allowing ourselves to accept every name except for things like me, user, \
nobody, admin, root is more important than making sure we've got correct metadata. 

Because none of us can actually be sure the metadata is correct anyway: there's not \
just the impossibility of creating that identifies a string as a name correctly, \
humans cannot do that either.

If we've got a working email address, well, that's the main thing. People's names \
                aren't unique, validatable or useful as identifiers in any case.
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