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From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RFC822 From: fields
Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2008 10:49:17 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r6ctatma.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080425235142.GA6347@cuci.nl> (Stephen R. van den Berg's message of "Sat, 26 Apr 2008 01:51:42 +0200")

* Stephen R. van den Berg:

> I noticed that the From: field generated by git-format-patch does not
> conform to RFC822 format when the realname contains a dot (like mine).
> Do we want to fix that in git-format-patch (only), or do we even want to
> fix that in the stored commit author and committer fields?

This was fixed in RFC 2822, and the fix has already been deployed widely
(even before the advent of RFC 2822).  I don't think there's any need to
change GIT.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-04-26  8:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-25 23:51 RFC822 From: fields Stephen R. van den Berg
2008-04-26  0:01 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-04-26  8:49 ` Florian Weimer [this message]
2008-04-26 11:45   ` Stephen R. van den Berg

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