Re: email address handling

From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Aug 1, 2008, 22:27 UTC
Message-ID: <20080801152720.56dbff09.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
In-Reply-To: <20080801221539.GA8617@mit.edu>

On Fri, 1 Aug 2008 18:15:39 -0400 Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu> wrote:

> How about this as a compromise?  Git continues to store the names in
> its internal format as it always does, but there is a configuration
> option which controls whether the various Author: and Committer:
> fields when displayd by git-log are in RFC-822 format or not.

Well I believe/expect/hope that git's name+email-address transformation goes via a lookup in the kernel's .mailmap file.

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.

So if everyone had a .mailmap entry then

- The Author: lines would all be MUA usable

- The Author lines would all be in their owners' preferred form.   I mean,
  converting

	"Morton, Andrew"

  into

	Morton, Andrew

  didn't improve things much.