From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: email address handling Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2008 13:07:59 -0700 Message-ID: <7vej58sdls.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <20080731194042.a1534b4d.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20080801124550.26b9efc0.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Andrew Morton , git@vger.kernel.org To: Linus Torvalds X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Aug 01 22:10:14 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 1KP0w5-0002gp-6t for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Fri, 01 Aug 2008 22:09:13 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753981AbYHAUIL (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Aug 2008 16:08:11 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753281AbYHAUIJ (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Aug 2008 16:08:09 -0400 Received: from a-sasl-quonix.sasl.smtp.pobox.com ([208.72.237.25]:34618 "EHLO sasl.smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753202AbYHAUIJ (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Aug 2008 16:08:09 -0400 Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by a-sasl-quonix.sasl.smtp.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36062461AF; Fri, 1 Aug 2008 16:08:06 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pobox.com (ip68-225-240-211.oc.oc.cox.net [68.225.240.211]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by a-sasl-quonix.sasl.smtp.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 00CB9461AE; Fri, 1 Aug 2008 16:08:01 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Linus Torvalds's message of "Fri, 1 Aug 2008 12:56:44 -0700 (PDT)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 8DDA9A68-6005-11DD-9C3E-3113EBD4C077-77302942!a-sasl-quonix.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Linus Torvalds writes: > On Fri, 1 Aug 2008, Andrew Morton wrote: >> >> That's how I noticed it - copied, pasted, MTA barfed. >> >> Converting a usable name+email-address into an unusable one seems ... unuseful. > > Umm. Those signed-off ones weren't even _converted_ They were written by > people. > > Also, you seemed to miss the point that it's not a name+email-address. > > It's a name. Oh, and there's an email address too. But they aren't > connected. We often just print out the name *without* the email address. > Why should those things have to know about some totally irrelevant email > quoting rules? They weren't emails, didn't know about it, and didn't care. One place that can matter is git-send-email.perl; IIRC, it reads from the S-o-b:, Cc: and From: lines people write, and these follow "name next to address, that does not care irrelevant email quoting rules" format. I do not think send-email currently does much about quoting them, but I think it should be the right place to do so.