Hi Daniel, Daniel F wrote: > would simply setting minimum length to 1 have any negative > side effects? I am not a git maintainer, but I would suggest writing a patch to do that. Then you can try it and see, and send us a copy of the patch when reporting the results. My guess is Linus wanted to make sure he had meaningful names in patches he applies[1]. There is no technical limit I know of that would lead one to forbid an author name longer than 60 characters, either. So the questions are: - did any code learn to rely on those limits later? - are any _people_ relying on those limits now? I suspect the answer to question 2, at least for the lower bound, is no. Hope that helps, Jonathan [1] See v0.99.2~51^2~21 (Start of early patch applicator tools for git., 2005-04-11) for the original script. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html