From: Kevin O'Riordan <kor@compsoc.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: What shall we do with the GECOS field again?
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 15:11:06 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050919141106.GA31983@compsoc.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050919134838.GC2903@pasky.or.cz>
Hi,
> [cutting] based on ',', ... might throw away the first name of gecos
> fields in the "Torvalds, Linus" name.
...
> ... a lot of them used the realname,phone,something,phone,... format.
...
> So my proposal ... is to cut everything after the first , or ; from
> the GECOS field.
...
> In the ... situation of the "Baudis, Petr"-like GECOS fields, this
> will just result in only the surname being in the realname field,
> which seems to be much less harmful and comparably less evil to me.
In case this hasn't been suggested, how about cutting on "," but taking
the first and second fields instead of just the first, and then
discarding the second if it contains numbers (or is empty, or whatever) ?
-kor
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-09-19 14:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-09-19 13:48 What shall we do with the GECOS field again? Petr Baudis
2005-09-19 14:11 ` Kevin O'Riordan [this message]
2005-09-19 14:34 ` Matthias Urlichs
2005-09-19 14:30 ` A Large Angry SCM
2005-09-19 14:47 ` Matthias Urlichs
2005-09-19 16:16 ` A Large Angry SCM
2005-09-19 16:34 ` Petr Baudis
2005-09-19 16:06 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-09-19 16:16 ` Petr Baudis
2005-09-19 16:32 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-09-19 16:49 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-09-19 16:59 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-09-20 4:02 ` Ryan Anderson
2005-09-20 4:13 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-09-20 3:12 ` Horst von Brand
2005-09-20 6:30 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-09-19 16:32 ` Nikolai Weibull
2005-09-19 21:21 ` Nikolai Weibull
2005-09-20 7:10 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-09-20 1:53 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-09-20 10:31 ` Nikolai Weibull
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