On Fri, 23 Aug 2019 09:20:47 +0200 Giuseppe Crinò <giuscri@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 It would not be removed in this case regardless of the qouting. It is neither at the start nor at the end. Thanks Michal
