From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: email address handling Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2008 15:49:02 -0700 Message-ID: <20080801154902.c60717e5.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 00:51:23 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 1KP3Sv-0005Co-Aq for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Sat, 02 Aug 2008 00:51:17 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750932AbYHAWuP (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Aug 2008 18:50:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750801AbYHAWuO (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Aug 2008 18:50:14 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:47754 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750751AbYHAWuN (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Aug 2008 18:50:13 -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 m71Mn3wJ013941 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Fri, 1 Aug 2008 15:49:04 -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 m71Mn2TM007925; Fri, 1 Aug 2008 15:49:02 -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 15:39:37 -0700 (PDT) Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > Btw, the real issue here is > > - why do you want to make things uglier and make up stupid rules that are > irrelevant to git, just for something that you admit you hadn't ever > even _noticed_ until now, and now that you know about it it's not even > a problem any more? None of that is correct. The real issue here is: - Why do you want to take usable RFC-compliant email addresses and mangle them in a manner which still doesn't match the person's actual name and which makes unsuspecting users of git potentially lose important email communications? Ain't framing great? > especially as > > - we know people won't do the quoting _anyway_, since we actually have > tons of examples of that in the kernel as-is. > > Quoting should be for _tools_, not for people. And even if we did it, we > probably wouldn't be fully rfc2822-compliant anyway, because anybody sane > would decide to not quote '@' and '.', rigth? > > Because those don't actually really have special meaning (yeah, they are > "special" characters in rfc-2822, but nobody cares, and the MUA can do it > for us, no)? > > So now we'd actually not really be rfc-compliant _anyway_, because > everybody really realizes just how annoying that would really be. > Linus, just admit it: copying and pasting from git-log output into the MUA is *useful*. And you've made it less reliable.