(CC'ed Linus, as he wrote mailinfo's sanity-checking) On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 10:24 AM, Tor Arntsen <tor@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 09:56, Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 9:45 AM, Tor Arntsen <tor@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> I think I've mentioned this before in another thread, but first/last >>> name isn't universal, not even within countries where it's the common >>> form. When I was as student there was a fellow student from another >>> scandinavian country and his legal, full name consisted of a single >>> letter. >>> >> >> I'm curious, what Scandinavian country was this? Because as a >> Norwegian, I know a lot of people from all Scandinavian country, yet >> I've never heard of such names. In Norway, I the shortest legal name >> I've ever heard of was five characters. > > Sweden (I'm Norwegian too - this guy was a Swede studying in Norway). > Admittedly I have only that single example, and it was back in the > late seventies. His name was accepted as legal by Statens Lånekasse > (bank for students) and when the loans arrived his single-letter name > would be found at the very end of the long lists of wide listing-paper > printouts from the bank that was stiched up on the billboard wall > outside the administration offices. The loans arrived a couple of > times per year but we always had to go looking - the rest of us were > just amazed that we could really find that single letter down there > and he wasn't bs'ing the rest of us about his name. > > I'm not sure why there's a 3-letter limit on git author names.. but I > would suggest it should be set down to 1 letter minimum.. below that > would, I think, be overdoing it.. > Linus, you wrote sanity_check (from 2744b23). Do you remember if there were any specific reason for the minimum length of 3 of an author-name? It seems that in Sweden, legal names can be even a single letter (see Tor's comment)... -- 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