From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tor Arntsen Subject: Re: git am mangles commit author name. Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2010 16:16:40 +0200 Message-ID: References: <20100713054949.GB2425@burratino> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: Daniel F , Jonathan Nieder , git@vger.kernel.org To: Jay Soffian X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Jul 14 16:16:49 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OZ2lV-0003q2-8A for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Wed, 14 Jul 2010 16:16:49 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754489Ab0GNOQn (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Jul 2010 10:16:43 -0400 Received: from mail-fx0-f46.google.com ([209.85.161.46]:51871 "EHLO mail-fx0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751686Ab0GNOQm (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Jul 2010 10:16:42 -0400 Received: by fxm14 with SMTP id 14so3039136fxm.19 for ; Wed, 14 Jul 2010 07:16:40 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:sender:received :in-reply-to:references:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject :from:to:cc:content-type; bh=Fw0RaevJbiocOwHqrV21pYBgbH9Y4odzcGz+azvMtPc=; b=ZMSd5r4j3uxFjrumAt470+4rVfNQ/08HogjicoqMrjXvjDgXRJqloSCOkVjRPqp8hm jXG3XiXAbQc85N125n6o0A6jqO6yTxLXBPRriGN+VwCICdbGHleGHhniS4k2y+wvtTcR ULRkfkKvpP1x/xNFsLFesORM4lExSnKjK9+lI= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; b=WVwD4/F2IHCUCZaTJywBe1TQBpKOjrPcRSJ2fyzJMVRKl6Y4v6rhPys4/TsVB23wdA /gn3PycNhlQERdcVRJtiqguq1UkG/YOpTIZKtOMgg23ZaDqmniGSuWduLEnoo9/6pGRw dX7DQQ/976Pp9ySGXdLBUkr971p6P7riI9bmk= Received: by 10.239.154.65 with SMTP id d1mr1414321hbc.86.1279117000553; Wed, 14 Jul 2010 07:16:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.239.164.16 with HTTP; Wed, 14 Jul 2010 07:16:40 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: X-Google-Sender-Auth: y-BM8wIc0AFthMGc3s9fmoJ2_O0 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 17:11, Jay Soffian wrote: > On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 10:54 AM, Daniel F wrote: >> Apparently, git-am fails when the username is just one word. > > And is less than 3 characters. [..] When I was a student a long time ago there was another (European) student there with a single-letter name. His legal name was 'Z'. It was printed like that in all official documents I ever saw, including bank accounts and loan papers, so it wasn't just some nickname he was using. -Tor