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* RFC822 From: fields
@ 2008-04-25 23:51 Stephen R. van den Berg
  2008-04-26  0:01 ` Junio C Hamano
  2008-04-26  8:49 ` Florian Weimer
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Stephen R. van den Berg @ 2008-04-25 23:51 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: git

I noticed that the From: field generated by git-format-patch does not
conform to RFC822 format when the realname contains a dot (like mine).
Do we want to fix that in git-format-patch (only), or do we even want to
fix that in the stored commit author and committer fields?
-- 
Sincerely,                                                          srb@cuci.nl
           Stephen R. van den Berg.

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* Re: RFC822 From: fields
  2008-04-25 23:51 RFC822 From: fields Stephen R. van den Berg
@ 2008-04-26  0:01 ` Junio C Hamano
  2008-04-26  8:49 ` Florian Weimer
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Junio C Hamano @ 2008-04-26  0:01 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Stephen R. van den Berg; +Cc: git

"Stephen R. van den Berg" <srb@cuci.nl> writes:

> I noticed that the From: field generated by git-format-patch does not
> conform to RFC822 format when the realname contains a dot (like mine).
> Do we want to fix that in git-format-patch (only), or do we even want to
> fix that in the stored commit author and committer fields?

I'd suspect that the answer should be "Neither", and rather inside
send-email.

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* Re: RFC822 From: fields
  2008-04-25 23:51 RFC822 From: fields Stephen R. van den Berg
  2008-04-26  0:01 ` Junio C Hamano
@ 2008-04-26  8:49 ` Florian Weimer
  2008-04-26 11:45   ` Stephen R. van den Berg
  1 sibling, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Florian Weimer @ 2008-04-26  8:49 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: git

* Stephen R. van den Berg:

> I noticed that the From: field generated by git-format-patch does not
> conform to RFC822 format when the realname contains a dot (like mine).
> Do we want to fix that in git-format-patch (only), or do we even want to
> fix that in the stored commit author and committer fields?

This was fixed in RFC 2822, and the fix has already been deployed widely
(even before the advent of RFC 2822).  I don't think there's any need to
change GIT.

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* Re: RFC822 From: fields
  2008-04-26  8:49 ` Florian Weimer
@ 2008-04-26 11:45   ` Stephen R. van den Berg
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Stephen R. van den Berg @ 2008-04-26 11:45 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: git

Florian Weimer wrote:
>* Stephen R. van den Berg:
>> I noticed that the From: field generated by git-format-patch does not
>> conform to RFC822 format when the realname contains a dot (like mine).

>This was fixed in RFC 2822, and the fix has already been deployed widely
>(even before the advent of RFC 2822).  I don't think there's any need to
>change GIT.

True indeed.  Ironically, the vger.kernel.org mailserver adheres to
RFC822 and ignores RFC2822 at the moment, which means that generating patches
from git, for the git mailinglist doesn't work without intervention.
I already contacted the vger-mailserver admin about this.
-- 
Sincerely,                                                          srb@cuci.nl
           Stephen R. van den Berg.

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