On 2021-08-22 at 14:19:33, Daniel P. wrote: > If user.name's value has a . as the last character of the last part > of the name, git is removing it from commit operations. But git-config > shows the . > > example: > > in .gitconfig: > > [user] > name = Daniel P. > > > `git config user.name`: > > user.name=Daniel P. > > > from `git show`: > > Author: Daniel P <danpltile@xxxxxxxxx> Yes, it does appear we do that. We consider a period to be "crud" and strip off trailing crud. I think we should probably change that, since in some places people write their family name first, and so a name like “carlson brian m.” might be a thing people might want to write, in addition to this particular case. In any event, it's not very polite to "correct" people's names for them. I myself have certainly run into that often enough. -- brian m. carlson (he/him or they/them) Toronto, Ontario, CA
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