Re: t4014 broken by 43ae9f47ab: format-patch: use default email for generating message ids

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On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 05:08:15PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> >   [5/7]: ident: rename IDENT_ERROR_ON_NO_NAME to IDENT_STRICT
> >   [6/7]: ident: reject bogus email addresses with IDENT_STRICT
> >   [7/7]: format-patch: do not use bogus email addresses in message ids
> >
> > These ones prevent bogus message ids from being generated at all
> > (which is an improvement over the previous state).
> 
> All looked pretty straightforward and cleanly done.
> 
> We might want to further tighten 6/7 to verify user-supplied (i.e. non
> default) e-mail for sanity, as I agree with the comment below --- lines of
> that patch.

Yeah. I'd be fine with more tightening, but I wanted to just catch the
most common uncontroversial problem in the initial round. We can build
on top later if we want.

> Also the check might want to be further tightened in the RFC 822/2822/5322
> sense, but getting it correct will open a huge can of worms; I think the
> check in 6/7 is a good place to stop, at least for now.

Yeah, I considered that, but got nervous thinking about the same can of
worms. It is not like people are complaining now, so I'd rather leave
it.

-Peff
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