From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Woodhouse Subject: Re: A shortcoming of the git repo format Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 14:39:59 +0100 Message-ID: <1114695600.27227.123.camel@hades.cambridge.redhat.com> References: <426F2671.1080105@zytor.com> <426FD3EE.5000404@zytor.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Linus Torvalds , Git Mailing List X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Apr 28 15:35:38 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([12.107.209.244]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DR9AO-0004iu-Ie for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Thu, 28 Apr 2005 15:34:56 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262128AbVD1NkU (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Apr 2005 09:40:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262129AbVD1NkU (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Apr 2005 09:40:20 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:1518 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262128AbVD1NkP (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Apr 2005 09:40:15 -0400 Received: from nat-pool-stn.redhat.com ([62.200.124.98] helo=hades.cambridge.redhat.com) by pentafluge.infradead.org with esmtpsa (Exim 4.43 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1DR9FO-0004AV-6g; Thu, 28 Apr 2005 14:40:07 +0100 To: "H. Peter Anvin" In-Reply-To: <426FD3EE.5000404@zytor.com> X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.4 (2.0.4-1.dwmw2.1) X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 2005-04-27 at 11:03 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > To find the email address, look for the first '<'. To find the date, look > > for the first '>'. Those characters are not allowed in the name or the > > email, so they act as well-defined delimeters. > > > > That's true for email addresses, Not in general. You can have just about any character, including @, < and >, in either a display-name or a local-part. For git we actually _remove_ any instances of '<' and '>' from both 'AUTHOR_NAME' and 'AUTHOR_EMAIL', so what you say becomes true. I still say these shouldn't be considered email addresses, any more than the 'user@host.domain' you see when you connect to an IRC server is considered an IP address. -- dwmw2