Re: names using git config

[Ryan <ryanphilips19@googlemail.com>]

Hi,
  Thank you for your response.

1) git config user.name 'Matthieu M. Moy' Works
2) git config user.name 'Matthieu M.'  does not


Probably, Name cannot end in a '.' <dot>. in git config user.name


Regards,
Ryan W.


On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 10:36 PM, Matthieu Moy<Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> wrote:
> Ryan <ryanphilips19@googlemail.com> writes:
>
>> How do i select a Name which ends in a dot something like Ryan W.
>> Philips in Git using  git config user.name
>>
>> Because when i do that "Ryan W. Philips" It just comes and Ryan W
>> Philips in git log when i add a commit.
>
> Can't reproduce here:
>
> $ mkdir git
> $ cd git/
> $ git init
> Initialized empty Git repository in /tmp/git/.git/
> $ git config user.name 'Matthieu M. Moy'
> $ cat .git/config
> [core]
>        repositoryformatversion = 0
>        filemode = true
>        bare = false
>        logallrefupdates = true
> [user]
>        name = Matthieu M. Moy
> $ touch foo; git add foo
> $ git commit -m "foo"
> [master (root-commit) 6814174] foo
>  0 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 foo
> $ git log
> commit 681417491423260ad13c3fb59c28fc96a68bf4f9
> Author: Matthieu M. Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
> Date:   Wed Jun 24 19:05:43 2009 +0200
>
>    foo
> $ git version
> git version 1.6.3.rc1.35.gabb3a
> $
>
> --
> Matthieu
>