From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC12EC00528 for ; Mon, 31 Jul 2023 21:02:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S230127AbjGaVC5 (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Jul 2023 17:02:57 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:36054 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S229877AbjGaVCv (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Jul 2023 17:02:51 -0400 Received: from ring.crustytoothpaste.net (ring.crustytoothpaste.net [IPv6:2600:3c04::f03c:92ff:fe9e:c6d8]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7384F1BC8 for ; Mon, 31 Jul 2023 14:02:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tapette.crustytoothpaste.net (unknown [IPv6:2001:470:b056:101:e59a:3ed0:5f5c:31f3]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange ECDHE (P-256) server-signature RSA-PSS (3072 bits) server-digest SHA256) (No client certificate requested) by ring.crustytoothpaste.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 2F1035B01B; Mon, 31 Jul 2023 21:02:48 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=crustytoothpaste.net; s=default; t=1690837368; bh=BBj1eD2BemLYPEJwuSh6LP1q6IcUs1n2qPEvnhtDiOE=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:Content-Type: Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To:From:Reply-To:Subject:Date:To:CC: Resent-Date:Resent-From:Resent-To:Resent-Cc:In-Reply-To:References: Content-Type:Content-Disposition; b=rPT4p49/sFP1/4moeItd4GSlg2vFUwRzJI9MoCDbpLXX2v4ijRoUQAsg46OOBZxeh GMnnWBFRe4lJ+0AgsZkcH7Iy5DzBdVDz5mgTv/JRliVrdEddrERcDmJU8InPbXIx2W idFHQID6ggjuq2p034BKwWjX32r/rh9rybRh2F59dY5jnpP9WwyO24LYjMhoF7nrML Xn9EzOrIdPMfP4wVa8Z5vXBlzEzbnKgB9/HBIy9ptif7tl7mYqtV1IsSTqPjz2um4q haXXOjdmZx6q4s+uTW4Me0KBYEp8yEQSyiJSJuCReKay4ZkWzNNZn7TRTufX0gzUCj lIO08+6W2HQ5Q6fB0e1gABCVwgURIzUkOco97/lmnKErtjJEgdMxhGiSpQLrRtYLcZ 5xTL0rHbFeYgjjCjhHDb74jhxFMjU39Pt3FRF5qQN9v+Sp9fepU6ODNXOt5+tMyL3T NkZp4ZhHe9Yub0d1xqjIZXCkLyZRajA8MTRNCmbCteWiQF+4yfa Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2023 21:02:46 +0000 From: "brian m. carlson" To: Junio C Hamano Cc: "Thomas J. Faughnan Jr." , Jeff King , "Daniel P." , git@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Git is removing . from the last part of user.name Message-ID: Mail-Followup-To: "brian m. carlson" , Junio C Hamano , "Thomas J. Faughnan Jr." , Jeff King , "Daniel P." , git@vger.kernel.org References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="N9SGwCKNJ9jK+5GO" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/2.2.9 (2022-11-12) Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org --N9SGwCKNJ9jK+5GO Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 2023-07-31 at 15:56:09, Junio C Hamano wrote: > "Thomas J. Faughnan Jr." writes: >=20 > >> On a somewhat lesser note, I'm tempted to say that "." probably was > >> never that useful (compared to say, comma, which is the gecos > >> separator), and we could probably just drop it from the crud list. > > > > Would this change still be considered? Or alternatively a git config > > option to ignore "." when checking if a character is crud? >=20 > That is certainly a blast from the past ;-) >=20 > I actually was wondering the opposite should be done, i.e. be > consistent and remove '.' just like '<' and '>' even from the > middle of names. '.' in the human-readable name part anywhere on > To: and Cc: lines, not just at the end, causes mailers to barf, > unless such name is quoted. For obvious reasons, I think that's a terrible idea. I don't think we should have such a config option, and should instead just drop "." from the crud list. I would welcome such a change. --=20 brian m. carlson (he/him or they/them) Toronto, Ontario, CA --N9SGwCKNJ9jK+5GO Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.2.40 (GNU/Linux) iHUEABYKAB0WIQQILOaKnbxl+4PRw5F8DEliiIeigQUCZMghdgAKCRB8DEliiIei gf4fAQDjJo/nNxxBqAm7Vc8bZuyTB0lhoiCXREJKlI61g32rDAEA9G3fCuZF8Ad2 oP7WnBjbpoz53nyCQ32c9J1nUnBuGgQ= =bC4v -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --N9SGwCKNJ9jK+5GO--