Re: Git Rebase blows away GIT_AUTHOR_NAME

[Tor Arntsen <tor@spacetec.no>]

On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 09:56, Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 9:45 AM, Tor Arntsen <tor@spacetec.no> wrote:
>> I think I've mentioned this before in another thread, but first/last
>> name isn't universal, not even within countries where it's the common
>> form. When I was as student there was a fellow student from another
>> scandinavian country and his legal, full name consisted of a single
>> letter.
>>
>
> I'm curious, what Scandinavian country was this? Because as a
> Norwegian, I know a lot of people from all Scandinavian country, yet
> I've never heard of such names. In Norway, I the shortest legal name
> I've ever heard of was five characters.

Sweden (I'm Norwegian too - this guy was a Swede studying in Norway).
Admittedly I have only that single example, and it was back in the
late seventies. His name was accepted as legal by Statens Lånekasse
(bank for students) and when the loans arrived his single-letter name
would be found at the very end of the long lists of wide listing-paper
printouts from the bank that was stiched up on the billboard wall
outside the administration offices. The loans arrived a couple of
times per year but we always had to go looking - the rest of us were
just amazed that we could really find that single letter down there
and he wasn't bs'ing the rest of us about his name.

I'm not sure why there's a 3-letter limit on git author names.. but I
would suggest it should be set down to 1 letter minimum.. below that
would, I think, be overdoing it..

-Tor