From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: email address handling
Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2008 15:39:37 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.1.10.0808011534260.6819@nehalem.linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080801152720.56dbff09.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Btw, the real issue here is
- why do you want to make things uglier and make up stupid rules that are
irrelevant to git, just for something that you admit you hadn't ever
even _noticed_ until now, and now that you know about it it's not even
a problem any more?
especially as
- we know people won't do the quoting _anyway_, since we actually have
tons of examples of that in the kernel as-is.
Quoting should be for _tools_, not for people. And even if we did it, we
probably wouldn't be fully rfc2822-compliant anyway, because anybody sane
would decide to not quote '@' and '.', rigth?
Because those don't actually really have special meaning (yeah, they are
"special" characters in rfc-2822, but nobody cares, and the MUA can do it
for us, no)?
So now we'd actually not really be rfc-compliant _anyway_, because
everybody really realizes just how annoying that would really be.
Linus
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-01 22:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-01 2:40 email address handling Andrew Morton
2008-08-01 19:34 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-08-01 19:45 ` Andrew Morton
2008-08-01 19:56 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-08-01 20:07 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-08-01 20:11 ` Andrew Morton
2008-08-01 20:17 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-08-01 20:24 ` Andrew Morton
2008-08-01 20:40 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-08-01 20:41 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-08-01 20:54 ` Andrew Morton
2008-08-01 21:12 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-08-01 21:16 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-08-01 21:25 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-08-02 11:03 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-08-01 21:50 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-08-01 21:58 ` Andrew Morton
2008-08-01 22:15 ` Theodore Tso
2008-08-01 22:27 ` Andrew Morton
2008-08-01 22:34 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-08-01 22:44 ` Andrew Morton
2008-08-01 22:52 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-08-01 23:00 ` Andrew Morton
2008-08-01 22:49 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-08-04 20:14 ` Karl Hasselström
2008-08-01 22:39 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2008-08-01 22:49 ` Andrew Morton
2008-08-01 22:55 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-08-01 23:16 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-08-02 11:31 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-08-02 16:20 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-08-02 16:36 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-08-02 16:59 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-08-02 17:08 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-08-02 16:40 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-08-02 16:42 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-08-02 17:50 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-08-01 22:23 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-08-01 22:41 ` Andrew Morton
2008-08-01 20:00 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-08-01 20:14 ` Andrew Morton
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