On Thu, Aug 22, 2019 at 6:24 PM Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > The logic there exists in order to remove cruft around the name on a > typical e-mail header (remember, most of the very core-ish part of > the Git was written and got solidified back when the Linux kernel > was the primary client of the system, and many commits were created > via "am"), e.g. sender's mail client may send something like this: > > From: 'Foo bar Baz' <my@xxxxxxx> > > and we do not want to take surrounding sq pair as part of the name. I see but _standard_ rules to escape characters should apply as I understand this. 'Foo bar Baz\'s' should be allowed as it should "Foo bar Baz's". They should resolve to the same name too
