brian m. carlson wrote: > On Mon, Sep 24, 2018 at 10:39:02AM -0700, Jonathan Nieder wrote: >> brian m. carlson wrote: >>> I think this commit message makes sense. [...] >> What would it take to make the patch make >> sense, too? ;-) > > I certainly didn't mean to imply a failing on your part for explaining > the change adequately. I've just always found the format confusing and > I know others do, too. No worries. I took the opportunity because the patch isn't in "next" yet so I was looking for a way to nudge it forward. I think v2 is simpler than v1. Thanks for your help. [...] > This has been a really helpful explanation. Thanks. > > Maybe I'll have some time over the next week or so to send a patch to > the documentation to make it more understandable to past me. Sounds good. I think the (non-)handling of the 'name <email> name' case is likely to be a bug. >> How about this? [...] > Having read your explanation, this looks good. Thanks for fixing this. \o/ Thanks for looking it over. Sincerely, Jonathan