From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: email address handling
Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2008 13:14:33 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080801131433.de5d06cc.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7viquksdyn.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
On Fri, 01 Aug 2008 13:00:16 -0700
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> writes:
>
> > On Fri, 1 Aug 2008 12:34:58 -0700 (PDT)
> > Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> >
> >> And Andrew, this is true of Signed-off-by: lines too, btw. If you actually
> >> want to send emails to them, _then_ you need to add quotes to follow the
> >> email rules.
> >
> > That's how I noticed it - copied, pasted, MTA barfed.
> >
> > Converting a usable name+email-address into an unusable one seems ... unuseful.
>
> Name is used not just for pasting into your MUA. For example, if your
> shortlog output showed this, it would be "funny looking":
>
> "Zhang, Rui" (4):
> ...
>
> Andrew Morton (20):
> ...
> ...
yep. That'd be a git-shortlog bug :)
I really don't care about this much!
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Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-01 2:40 email address handling Andrew Morton
2008-08-01 19:34 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-08-01 19:45 ` Andrew Morton
2008-08-01 19:56 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-08-01 20:07 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-08-01 20:11 ` Andrew Morton
2008-08-01 20:17 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-08-01 20:24 ` Andrew Morton
2008-08-01 20:40 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-08-01 20:41 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-08-01 20:54 ` Andrew Morton
2008-08-01 21:12 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-08-01 21:16 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-08-01 21:25 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-08-02 11:03 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-08-01 21:50 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-08-01 21:58 ` Andrew Morton
2008-08-01 22:15 ` Theodore Tso
2008-08-01 22:27 ` Andrew Morton
2008-08-01 22:34 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-08-01 22:44 ` Andrew Morton
2008-08-01 22:52 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-08-01 23:00 ` Andrew Morton
2008-08-01 22:49 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-08-04 20:14 ` Karl Hasselström
2008-08-01 22:39 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-08-01 22:49 ` Andrew Morton
2008-08-01 22:55 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-08-01 23:16 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-08-02 11:31 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-08-02 16:20 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-08-02 16:36 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-08-02 16:59 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-08-02 17:08 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-08-02 16:40 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-08-02 16:42 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-08-02 17:50 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-08-01 22:23 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-08-01 22:41 ` Andrew Morton
2008-08-01 20:00 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-08-01 20:14 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
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