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From: Daniel F <nanotube@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: git am mangles commit author name.
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 10:54:52 -0400
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Hi Jonathan,

Thanks for your response!

On 7/13/10, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> wrote:
> The commit author showed up with name and email address as I expected.
> What did I do wrong?
>
> Alternatively: could you send the first few lines of your .patch file?

I figured it out :) This was the from line:
From: bc <email@somedomain.net>

Apparently, git-am fails when the username is just one word.
if i put a space between the b and the c, it works just fine.

However... do you not think that it is still a bug? Is it not quite reasonable
for a person to want to identify with just a nick, rather than a full
first and last name?

And more to the immediate point... is there any way i can get git am
to do what i want? :)

Thanks,
Daniel