From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: email address handling Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2008 15:44:53 -0700 Message-ID: <20080801154453.921bb50f.akpm@linux-foundation.org> References: <20080801124550.26b9efc0.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20080801131127.20b3acfd.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20080801132415.0b0314e4.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20080801135421.5ca0f6af.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <7vvdykqub6.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <20080801145804.85041bbd.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20080801221539.GA8617@mit.edu> <20080801152720.56dbff09.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Theodore Tso , Junio C Hamano , git@vger.kernel.org To: Linus Torvalds X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Aug 02 00:46:42 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KP3OT-000432-E5 for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Sat, 02 Aug 2008 00:46:41 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761113AbYHAWpk (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Aug 2008 18:45:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1761120AbYHAWpj (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Aug 2008 18:45:39 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:47935 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1760921AbYHAWpg (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Aug 2008 18:45:36 -0400 Received: from imap1.linux-foundation.org (imap1.linux-foundation.org [140.211.169.55]) by smtp1.linux-foundation.org (8.14.2/8.13.5/Debian-3ubuntu1.1) with ESMTP id m71Mis6t013588 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Fri, 1 Aug 2008 15:44:55 -0700 Received: from y.localdomain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by imap1.linux-foundation.org (8.13.5.20060308/8.13.5/Debian-3ubuntu1.1) with SMTP id m71Miris007723; Fri, 1 Aug 2008 15:44:53 -0700 In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.8 (GTK+ 2.12.5; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.824 required=5 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.4-osdl_revision__1.47__ X-MIMEDefang-Filter: lf$Revision: 1.188 $ X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.63 on 140.211.169.13 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Fri, 1 Aug 2008 15:34:16 -0700 (PDT) Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Fri, 1 Aug 2008, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > 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. > > Umm. Or quotes? I don't think so. Or even periods? You must not have > looked at things, I found one at the very first screenful. > > Ed L. Cashin > Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso > S.__a__lar Onur oh. So .mailmap isn't usable either. Argh. I guess it'd be fairly simple to slap quotes around anything which contains fishy characters. > adn that's just basically ignoring the fact that we only add mailmap > entries for people who can't get it right other ways (where admittedly > sometimes the "can't get it right" comes from the people in between: poor > __a__lar has had his name corrupted so many times that it's funny). ^^^^^^^^ (lol)