On Fri, Aug 01, 2008 at 02:58:04PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > I preserve the quotes (when present) in signoffs for this exact reason. > Heh. I include quotes in my Signed-off-by: Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@xxxxxxx> Because I assumed the format of the DCO was an RFC-822 compliant header format. It otherwise *looks* like an RFC-822 format, so I assumed it should follow all of the rules, including the ones about quoting. How about this as a compromise? Git continues to store the names in its internal format as it always does, but there is a configuration option which controls whether the various Author: and Committer: fields when displayd by git-log are in RFC-822 format or not. - Ted -- 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