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From: Martin Schlemmer <azarah@nosferatu.za.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: Brad Roberts <braddr@puremagic.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] fork optional branch point normazilation
Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 12:45:19 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1113821119.16288.13.camel@nosferatu.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0504171636590.7211@ppc970.osdl.org>

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On Sun, 2005-04-17 at 16:39 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 17 Apr 2005, Brad Roberts wrote:
> >
> > braddr:x:1000:1000:Brad Roberts,,,:/home/braddr:/bin/bash
> > 
> > All gecos entries on all my debian boxes are of the form:
> > 
> >    fullname, office number, office extension, and home number
> 
> Ahh, ok.
> 
> I'll make the "cleanup" thing just remove strange characters from the end, 
> that should fix this kind of thing for now.
> 
> I'd just remove everything after the first strange number, but I can also 
> see people using the "lastname, firstname" format, and I'd hate to just 
> ignore firstname in that case.
> 

If we get the info from /etc/passwd, then we should just use whatever
before the first [,;] (see patch I posted earlier).  If not, then I
think AUTHOR_* should be sane).


-- 
Martin Schlemmer


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      parent reply	other threads:[~2005-04-18 10:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-04-17 12:04 [patch] fork optional branch point normazilation Brad Roberts
2005-04-17 12:25 ` Petr Baudis
2005-04-17 12:40   ` Brad Roberts
2005-04-17 17:13 ` [patch] " Linus Torvalds
2005-04-17 17:21   ` Daniel Barkalow
2005-04-17 23:27   ` Brad Roberts
2005-04-17 23:39     ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-18  0:23       ` Petr Baudis
2005-04-18  1:07         ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-18  1:51           ` [PATCH] remove_special() tentative fix Junio C Hamano
2005-04-18  2:01           ` [patch] fork optional branch point normazilation Brad Roberts
2005-04-18 10:45       ` Martin Schlemmer [this message]

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