Johannes Schindelin wrote:
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.
This is not worth a flame-war, and Peff has already created a response
superior to my own, so I'll leave to Junio to find the best(TM) path.
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