From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: email address handling Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2008 13:40:00 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: References: <20080731194042.a1534b4d.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20080801124550.26b9efc0.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20080801131127.20b3acfd.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20080801132415.0b0314e4.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Andrew Morton X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Aug 01 22:41:05 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KP1Qv-0006Sx-3T for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Fri, 01 Aug 2008 22:41:05 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754353AbYHAUkE (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Aug 2008 16:40:04 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754147AbYHAUkE (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Aug 2008 16:40:04 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:38900 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753862AbYHAUkC (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Aug 2008 16:40:02 -0400 Received: from imap1.linux-foundation.org (imap1.linux-foundation.org [140.211.169.55]) by smtp1.linux-foundation.org (8.14.2/8.13.5/Debian-3ubuntu1.1) with ESMTP id m71Ke0RL001716 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Fri, 1 Aug 2008 13:40:01 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by imap1.linux-foundation.org (8.13.5.20060308/8.13.5/Debian-3ubuntu1.1) with ESMTP id m71Ke0TB001861; Fri, 1 Aug 2008 13:40:00 -0700 In-Reply-To: <20080801132415.0b0314e4.akpm@linux-foundation.org> User-Agent: Alpine 1.10 (LFD 962 2008-03-14) X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-3.413 required=5 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.4-osdl_revision__1.47__ X-MIMEDefang-Filter: lf$Revision: 1.188 $ X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.63 on 140.211.169.13 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Fri, 1 Aug 2008, Andrew Morton wrote: > > pls read earlier email. I did. It seems that your complaint is: > So unless he explicitly typed a "From:" line (without quoting his name) > into the top of his changelog, some piece of software somewhere has > stripped the quotes when it was converting his name from the email > headers into the git Author: line. And yes, git will strip out all the crap and try to make it into a real name. The part _you_ don't seem to understand is that my point is - git changed that "From:" line to an "Author:" line - "git log" isn't an email system. It's a human-readable (and machine-parseable, for that matter) log. If you want to turn it into emails, you need to follow the email rules. You're cutting-and-pasting anyway, it's not like this is fundamentally hard. Linus