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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: email address handling
Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2008 15:27:20 -0700
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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.