On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 10:28:58AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > > > So we should probably do one or both of: > > > > 1. Make an --allow-any-name option to mailinfo, and use it when we > > invoke mailinfo internally for rebasing. That still doesn't solve > > the emailed patch problem, but at least keeps purely internal > > operations sane. > > > > 2. Bump the check up to git-commit time, which is the best place to > > catch and tell somebody that their name is too short, because they > > can actually fix it. > > > > Even if we dropped the check now, option (2) is still useful, because > > you have no idea which version of git the other end will use to apply > > your patch. > > I am perfectly Ok with making the check looser in "am" when $rebasing is > in effect. Wouldn't that solve the issue? More or less. You would still have some lossiness when emailing your patch. Do we want to warn about that? -Peff -- 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