From: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>
To: "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Cc: git <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: git-send-email doesn't deal with quoted names
Date: Tue, 28 May 2013 09:25:17 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130528082517.GP27005@serenity.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHmME9p19eysjEVk+6FmAb2FQb7dq_e3k_KLQLRZqhx2Bs6O3w@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 01:40:20AM +0200, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
> My commit author name is "Jason A. Donenfeld". Because this has a dot,
> SMTP handling likes to put it in quotes.
>
> git-send-email has this line:
> if (defined $author and $author ne $sender) {
>
> With my name, this always winds up false, because it's comparing
> '"Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>' with 'Jason A. Donenfeld
> <Jason@zx2c4.com>'.
>
> So, the logic needs to be fixed somehow.
There was a patch for this recently, although it appears to be still
under discussion:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/225247
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2013-05-27 23:40 git-send-email doesn't deal with quoted names Jason A. Donenfeld
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