On Fri, 1 Aug 2008 15:39:37 -0700 (PDT) Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Btw, the real issue here is > > - why do you want to make things uglier and make up stupid rules that are > irrelevant to git, just for something that you admit you hadn't ever > even _noticed_ until now, and now that you know about it it's not even > a problem any more? None of that is correct. The real issue here is: - Why do you want to take usable RFC-compliant email addresses and mangle them in a manner which still doesn't match the person's actual name and which makes unsuspecting users of git potentially lose important email communications? Ain't framing great? > especially as > > - we know people won't do the quoting _anyway_, since we actually have > tons of examples of that in the kernel as-is. > > Quoting should be for _tools_, not for people. And even if we did it, we > probably wouldn't be fully rfc2822-compliant anyway, because anybody sane > would decide to not quote '@' and '.', rigth? > > Because those don't actually really have special meaning (yeah, they are > "special" characters in rfc-2822, but nobody cares, and the MUA can do it > for us, no)? > > So now we'd actually not really be rfc-compliant _anyway_, because > everybody really realizes just how annoying that would really be. > Linus, just admit it: copying and pasting from git-log output into the MUA is *useful*. And you've made it less reliable. -- 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
