Hi, On Fri, 1 Aug 2008, Andrew Morton wrote: > I very very frequently copy and paste name+email address out of git > output and into an MUA. Have done it thousands and thousands of times, > and it has always worked. I'm sure that many others do the same thing. $ git log --pretty=email after this patch: -- snipsnap -- pretty.c | 6 ++++++ 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/pretty.c b/pretty.c index 33ef34a..ba50b54 100644 --- a/pretty.c +++ b/pretty.c @@ -140,14 +140,20 @@ void pp_user_info(const char *what, enum cmit_fmt fmt, struct strbuf *sb, if (fmt == CMIT_FMT_EMAIL) { char *name_tail = strchr(line, '<'); int display_name_length; + int need_quotes; if (!name_tail) return; while (line < name_tail && isspace(name_tail[-1])) name_tail--; display_name_length = name_tail - line; + need_quotes = !!memchr(line, ',', display_name_length); filler = ""; strbuf_addstr(sb, "From: "); + if (need_quotes) + strbuf_addch(sb, '"'); add_rfc2047(sb, line, display_name_length, encoding); + if (need_quotes) + strbuf_addch(sb, '"'); strbuf_add(sb, name_tail, namelen - display_name_length); strbuf_addch(sb, '\n'); } else { -- 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