On Fri, 1 Aug 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > If you want to turn it into emails, you need to follow the email rules. > You're cutting-and-pasting anyway, it's not like this is fundamentally > hard. Btw, if sending emails was the _only_ thing that Author line was used for, or even the main thing, then it would make sense to keep it in some email format. But it really isn't. Sending emails to people is the _least_ common thing you do with it. Most of the time you just want to see the name in a nice readable format. Linus -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html