Re: email address handling

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On Fri, 1 Aug 2008 15:34:16 -0700 (PDT) Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 
> 
> On Fri, 1 Aug 2008, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > 
> > And the existing .mailmap appears to have taken care that all the
> > "name" parts are in an MUA-usable form.  There are no periods or
> > commas.
> 
> Umm. Or quotes? I don't think so. Or even periods? You must not have 
> looked at things, I found one at the very first screenful.
> 
> 	Ed L. Cashin <ecashin@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 	Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@xxxxxxxx>
> 	S.__a__lar Onur <caglar@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

oh.  So .mailmap isn't usable either.  Argh.

I guess it'd be fairly simple to slap quotes around anything which
contains fishy characters.

> adn that's just basically ignoring the fact that we only add mailmap 
> entries for people who can't get it right other ways (where admittedly 
> sometimes the "can't get it right" comes from the people in between: poor 
> __a__lar has had his name corrupted so many times that it's funny).
  ^^^^^^^^ (lol)

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