I sometimes receive patches from people with short mononyms, and in my cultural environment these are not uncommon. To my dismay, git-am currently discards their names, and replaces them with their email addresses. Link: https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-names/ --- I'm not *completely* sure there's even a case where `src = email` is the right thing to do, but I'd rather not modify this code more than strictly necessary. mailinfo.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/mailinfo.c b/mailinfo.c index b395adbdf2..7274232e28 100644 --- a/mailinfo.c +++ b/mailinfo.c @@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ static void cleanup_space(struct strbuf *sb) static void get_sane_name(struct strbuf *out, struct strbuf *name, struct strbuf *email) { struct strbuf *src = name; - if (name->len < 3 || 60 < name->len || strchr(name->buf, '@') || + if (!name->len || 60 < name->len || strchr(name->buf, '@') || strchr(name->buf, '<') || strchr(name->buf, '>')) src = email; else if (name == out) -- 2.24.1