"Thomas J. Faughnan Jr." <thomas@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> On a somewhat lesser note, I'm tempted to say that "." probably was >> never that useful (compared to say, comma, which is the gecos >> separator), and we could probably just drop it from the crud list. > > Would this change still be considered? Or alternatively a git config > option to ignore "." when checking if a character is crud? That is certainly a blast from the past ;-) I actually was wondering the opposite should be done, i.e. be consistent and remove '.' just like '<' and '>' even from the middle of names. '.' in the human-readable name part anywhere on To: and Cc: lines, not just at the end, causes mailers to barf, unless such name is quoted. And from the consistency point of view, I think that a configuration variable that tells Git to include/exclude "." from the "crud()" letter should make us drop/keep "." from anywhere in the name, not just at the tail end. If we decide that adding such a configuration variable is a good idea, that is.
