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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
	torvalds@linux-foundation.org, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: email address handling
Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2008 15:27:20 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080801152720.56dbff09.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080801221539.GA8617@mit.edu>

On Fri, 1 Aug 2008 18:15:39 -0400 Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu> wrote:

> How about this as a compromise?  Git continues to store the names in
> its internal format as it always does, but there is a configuration
> option which controls whether the various Author: and Committer:
> fields when displayd by git-log are in RFC-822 format or not.  

Well I believe/expect/hope that git's name+email-address transformation
goes via a lookup in the kernel's .mailmap file.

And the existing .mailmap appears to have taken care that all the
"name" parts are in an MUA-usable form.  There are no periods or
commas.

So if everyone had a .mailmap entry then

- The Author: lines would all be MUA usable

- The Author lines would all be in their owners' preferred form.   I mean,
  converting

	"Morton, Andrew"

  into

	Morton, Andrew

  didn't improve things much.

  reply	other threads:[~2008-08-01 22:29 UTC|newest]

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 [this message]
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

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