From: "Đoàn Trần Công Danh" <congdanhqx@gmail.com>
To: Professor Bloodstone <prof.bloodstone@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git-am changes author if its short
Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2021 00:04:51 +0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YOXesxUQW9zRX4uV@danh.dev> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABHhMZHEL=0sU8JqwMb5Va7mjA4ZxM_WMaLMabbKS085RVbDzQ@mail.gmail.com>
On 2021-07-07 18:46:53+0200, Professor Bloodstone <prof.bloodstone@gmail.com> wrote:
> When applying a patch using git am test.patch, if author consists of 1
> or 2 letters, then it is being replaced with author email instead.
>
> For example take patch with such line:
>
> From: AA <git@bloodstone.dev>
>
> Upon applying such patch, the author is replaced with email:
>
> Author: git@bloodstone.dev <git@bloodstone.dev>
>
> I did try multiple different 1 or 2 letter names, they all seem to
> have the same issue. 3 letter names work fine. This was tested by 3
> people in our project, and happens in very different setups.
>
> I'm having a hard time finding the exact cause of it. Tried searching
> for issues, but didn't find anything. Maybe someone has an idea what
> could it be caused by?
A patch for this problem has been merged [1]. Git 2.32.0 should have
this problem fixed.
1: https://lore.kernel.org/git/xmqq4kf25lso.fsf@gitster.g/
--
Danh
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2021-07-07 16:46 git-am changes author if its short Professor Bloodstone
2021-07-07 17:04 ` Đoàn Trần Công Danh [this message]
2021-07-07 17:08 ` Đoàn Trần Công Danh
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