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RFC822 From: fields

From
Stephen R. van den Berg <srb@cuci.nl>
Date
Apr 25, 2008, 23:51 UTC
Message-ID
<20080425235142.GA6347@cuci.nl>

I noticed that the From: field generated by git-format-patch does not conform to RFC822 format when the realname contains a dot (like mine). Do we want to fix that in git-format-patch (only), or do we even want to fix that in the stored commit author and committer fields?

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Sincerely,                                                          srb@cuci.nl
           Stephen R. van den Berg.
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