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On Tue, Jul 12, 2022 at 7:47 AM Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o> wrote: |
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> >>>>> On Tue, 12 Jul 2022, Michał Górny wrote: |
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> >> to the commit message as a separate line. The sign-off must contain |
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> >> -the committer's legal name as a natural person, i.e., the name that |
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> >> -would appear in a government issued document. |
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> >> +the committer's real name as a natural person, i.e., the name that |
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> >> +you would use to present yourself to your colleagues. |
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> > This is insensitive to people who don't have any colleagues. |
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> The snarkiness of Michał's comment left aside, in general "the name that |
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> you would use to present yourself to your colleagues" won't work. It is |
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> one of the examples in [1]: |
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> | 4. People have, at this point in time, one full name which they go by. |
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> | Not so, even in Western countries, where a woman may choose to retain |
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> | her unmarried name at work (where she is already known by that name), |
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> | and use her husband’s surname on social occasions, and even on legal |
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> | documents such as mortgages and loans. |
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So what's the problem? That people can have more than one "real name"? |
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Can't they just pick one? |
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