From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: email address handling
Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2008 13:00:16 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7viquksdyn.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080801124550.26b9efc0.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (Andrew Morton's message of "Fri, 1 Aug 2008 12:45:50 -0700")
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> writes:
> On Fri, 1 Aug 2008 12:34:58 -0700 (PDT)
> Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
>> And Andrew, this is true of Signed-off-by: lines too, btw. If you actually
>> want to send emails to them, _then_ you need to add quotes to follow the
>> email rules.
>
> That's how I noticed it - copied, pasted, MTA barfed.
>
> Converting a usable name+email-address into an unusable one seems ... unuseful.
Name is used not just for pasting into your MUA. For example, if your
shortlog output showed this, it would be "funny looking":
"Zhang, Rui" (4):
...
Andrew Morton (20):
...
...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-01 20:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-01 2:40 email address handling Andrew Morton
2008-08-01 19:34 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-08-01 19:45 ` Andrew Morton
2008-08-01 19:56 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-08-01 20:07 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-08-01 20:11 ` Andrew Morton
2008-08-01 20:17 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-08-01 20:24 ` Andrew Morton
2008-08-01 20:40 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-08-01 20:41 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-08-01 20:54 ` Andrew Morton
2008-08-01 21:12 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-08-01 21:16 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-08-01 21:25 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-08-02 11:03 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-08-01 21:50 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-08-01 21:58 ` Andrew Morton
2008-08-01 22:15 ` Theodore Tso
2008-08-01 22:27 ` Andrew Morton
2008-08-01 22:34 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-08-01 22:44 ` Andrew Morton
2008-08-01 22:52 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-08-01 23:00 ` Andrew Morton
2008-08-01 22:49 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-08-04 20:14 ` Karl Hasselström
2008-08-01 22:39 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-08-01 22:49 ` Andrew Morton
2008-08-01 22:55 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-08-01 23:16 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-08-02 11:31 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-08-02 16:20 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-08-02 16:36 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-08-02 16:59 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-08-02 17:08 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-08-02 16:40 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-08-02 16:42 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-08-02 17:50 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-08-01 22:23 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-08-01 22:41 ` Andrew Morton
2008-08-01 20:00 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2008-08-01 20:14 ` Andrew Morton
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