From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: email address handling Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2008 15:55:40 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: References: <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> <20080801221539.GA8617@mit.edu> <20080801152720.56dbff09.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20080801154902.c60717e5.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Theodore Tso , Junio C Hamano , git@vger.kernel.org To: Andrew Morton X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Aug 02 00:57:24 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 1KP3Ym-0006i2-L1 for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Sat, 02 Aug 2008 00:57:21 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750880AbYHAW4F (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Aug 2008 18:56:05 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752159AbYHAW4E (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Aug 2008 18:56:04 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:38580 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750880AbYHAW4B (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Aug 2008 18:56:01 -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 m71MtenL014679 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Fri, 1 Aug 2008 15:55:41 -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 m71MteuX008257; Fri, 1 Aug 2008 15:55:40 -0700 In-Reply-To: <20080801154902.c60717e5.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: > > Linus, just admit it: copying and pasting from git-log output into the MUA > is *useful*. And you've made it less reliable. Oh, I admit it is useful. But your "solution" is actually MUCH MUCH MUCH worse than what git does. That's my argument here. Life is tough. Not everthing is going to be easy. Your solution would "work", but it would be a horrid piece of crap. Linus