Hi, On Thu, 2 Apr 2009, A Large Angry SCM wrote: > Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > > On Thu, 2 Apr 2009, A Large Angry SCM wrote: > > > > > Junio C Hamano wrote: > > > > Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> writes: > > > > > > > > > > What part of the email address is this going to lowercase? > > > > > > Only the domain name is case agnostic. > > > > > > > > That is my understanding of RFC, too. Let's see where this mail > > > > goes to find out how much more lenient the real world is ;-). > > > > > > > Many email providers/servers are lenient when it comes to case in > > > the local part of an email address (after all, they control the > > > interpretation) but not every provider/server is and the RFC is VERY > > > clear on this issue. > > > > And in one of my projects it is _very_ clear that this strict > > interpretation of the RFC, which does not matter in reality, > > _actively_ _hurts_. > > Care to provide actual justification for that statement. Well, I _did_! I have at least _one_ repository where the case insensitive email addresses worked, and got fscked over, by having Git change behavior behind my back! > > In the alternative, can I ask you to adjust my .mailmap in your free > > time? > > _Your_ .mailmap file is your issue. > > So which standards do you choose to follow and which do you choose to > ignore? You chose a rather inappropriate moment to start one of those damned flamewars -- I am in the middle of some rather important day-job meeting, plus two projects in the deadline-is-looming GSoC frenzy. In case it was not clear yet: if I have to chose between following a standard and reality that just took over, I will _always_ choose the latter. If you take this mail to start a flamewar for real (i.e. not answer to my concerns, but point out that standard X says bla, and that everybody else should just obey, oh, and fix their ways as of 20 years), please do remove me from the Cc: list. Ciao, Dscho -- 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
