On 04/22/2011 03:36 PM, Jeff King wrote: > On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 03:11:46PM -0400, "Alejandro R. SedeÃo" wrote: >> I'd be happy to see something like this get in. I've often noticed >> git-send-email telling me that it couldn't parse an address out of my >> signed-of-by lines, but I never stopped and took the time to look into it. > > That is a separate issue. The patch I posted will make format-patch > properly quote rfc822 specials in actual email header lines. But > Signed-off-by lines will remain as they are, being part of the message > body. And I think that's what we want. You certainly wouldn't want to > rfc2047-encode them (they are already covered by the body's content-type > encoding). > > And while you could quote rfc822 specials, people don't tend to do that. > There's no formal syntax defined, but people tend to treat them as: > > Signed-off-by: (.*) <(.*)> > > i.e., everything inside <> is an address, and everything before that is > the name. > > If there is an issue with send-email parsing signed-off-by lines or > formatting the addresses it pulls from them, that's a separate problem > that will need to be dealt with in send-email. Okay, then I'll try look into that when things settle down here, if no one else has by then. -Alejandro -- 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