From: Andrew Morton Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2008 22:44:53 GMT Subject: Re: email address handling Message-ID: <20080801154453.921bb50f.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: On Fri, 1 Aug 2008 15:34:16 -0700 (PDT) Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Fri, 1 Aug 2008, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > 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. > > Umm. Or quotes? I don't think so. Or even periods? You must not have > looked at things, I found one at the very first screenful. > > Ed L. Cashin > Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso > S.__a__lar Onur oh. So .mailmap isn't usable either. Argh. I guess it'd be fairly simple to slap quotes around anything which contains fishy characters. > adn that's just basically ignoring the fact that we only add mailmap > entries for people who can't get it right other ways (where admittedly > sometimes the "can't get it right" comes from the people in between: poor > __a__lar has had his name corrupted so many times that it's funny). ^^^^^^^^ (lol)