From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: email address handling Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2008 15:23:23 -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> <20080801135421.5ca0f6af.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <7vvdykqub6.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <20080801145804.85041bbd.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Junio C Hamano , git@vger.kernel.org To: Andrew Morton X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Aug 02 00:24:52 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 1KP33I-0006um-2X for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Sat, 02 Aug 2008 00:24:48 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756099AbYHAWXs (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Aug 2008 18:23:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755937AbYHAWXs (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Aug 2008 18:23:48 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:54914 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753109AbYHAWXr (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Aug 2008 18:23:47 -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 m71MNOE4011948 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Fri, 1 Aug 2008 15:23:25 -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 m71MNNPb006831; Fri, 1 Aug 2008 15:23:23 -0700 In-Reply-To: <20080801145804.85041bbd.akpm@linux-foundation.org> User-Agent: Alpine 1.10 (LFD 962 2008-03-14) X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-3.411 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: > > I preserve the quotes (when present) in signoffs for this exact reason. You must be one of the few ones. According to the RFC's, you should quote pretty much any punctuation mark, including "." itself. Which means that things like Signed-off-by: David S. Miller should be quoted if they were email addresses. That would be very irritating. It's even _more_ irritating for things like D'Souza (or Giuseppe D'Eliseo to take a real example from the kernel). For David, we could just not use the "S." - for others, the special characters are very much part of the name. It would also be very irritating for important messages like Signed-off-by: Linus "I'm a moron" Torvalds etc, where it sure as heck isn't a rfc2822-compliant email address. So the thing is, "strict email format" is just very annoying. Git does know how to do (well, it _should_) it for "git send-email", but making the human-readable output ugly just because somebody might want to cut-and-paste it sounds really sad. You could cut-and-paste just the stuff inside the angle branckets, though. That should work. Linus