On 2023-07-31 at 15:56:09, Junio C Hamano wrote: > "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. For obvious reasons, I think that's a terrible idea. I don't think we should have such a config option, and should instead just drop "." from the crud list. I would welcome such a change. -- brian m. carlson (he/him or they/them) Toronto, Ontario, CA
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