On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 01:43:58PM -0400, Jeff King wrote: > On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 05:05:31PM +0000, Robin H. Johnson wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 02:41:22PM +0200, Kacper Kornet wrote: > > > I try to import some repositories into git and one of the developers has > > > asked his name to be presented as: Name 'Nick' <email>. > > > However git commit --author="Name 'Nick' <email>" strips the last > > > apostrophe and produces a commit authored by: Name 'Nick <email>. > > > Maybe the function strbuf_addstr_without_crud in ident.c should strip > > > the trailing apostrophe only when it removed it also from the beginning > > > of the string? > > Which version of Git? And is it being stripped by git, or one of the > > import tools? > I'm sure it's the most recent one, Yes, it is 1.7.11 > as strbuf_addstr_without_crud was > only added recently (but it is a refactoring of older code which should > have the same behavior). It depends what you call recently. It was refactored in July 2005 (commit: 6aa33f4035d5). But it looks like the previous code (before refactoring) removed only comma, dot and semicolon from the end of the author name. -- Kacper -- 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