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From: "Tor Arntsen" <tor@spacetec.no>
Subject: Re: Git Rebase blows away GIT_AUTHOR_NAME
Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2011 17:21:18 +0100
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On 14/01/2011 17:13, Erik Faye-Lund wrote:

> I think Tor pointed out that he knew a swede with his full legal name
> to be only one letter long. I would suppose that meant that he didn't
> have a surename?

Exactly. He didn't. Bank printouts etc. would only have that single
letter, he didn't use a nickname - that letter was his legal name.

As for the rest of the world - I don't think the first name/last name combo
(almost) everyone in the west use is necessarily a universal rule.

-Tor