Re: [PATCH v3] am: use get_author_ident_from_commit instead of mailinfo when rebasing

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Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> In certain situations, commit authorship can consist of an invalid
> e-mail address. For example, this is the case when working with git svn
> repos where the author email has had the svn repo UUID appended such as:
>
>  author@xxxxxxxxxxx <author@xxxxxxxxxxx@deadbeef-dead-beef-dead-beefdeadbeef>
>
> Given such an address, mailinfo extracts the authorship incorrectly as
> it assumes a valid domain. However, when rebasing the original
> authorship should be preserved irrespective of its validity as an email
> address.

This justifies the motivation very well.  Thanks.
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