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Re: [PATCH] mailmap: resurrect lower-casing of email addresses

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A Large Angry SCM <gitzilla@gmail.com>
Date
Apr 2, 2009, 22:58 UTC
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Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> 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.

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  1. mailmap: resurrect lower-casing of email addressesJohannes Schindelin, Mar 31, 2009
  2. A Large Angry SCMApr 2, 2009
  3. Johannes SchindelinApr 2, 2009
  4. Junio C HamanoApr 2, 2009
  5. A Large Angry SCMApr 2, 2009
  6. Johannes SchindelinApr 2, 2009
  7. A Large Angry SCMApr 2, 2009
  8. Johannes SchindelinApr 3, 2009
  9. Jeff KingApr 3, 2009
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  11. Johannes SchindelinApr 6, 2009
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  13. Johannes SchindelinApr 7, 2009
  14. Markus HeidelbergApr 7, 2009
  15. Alles wird Git, was Re: [PATCH] mailmap: resurrect lower-casing of email addressesJohannes Schindelin, Apr 8, 2009
  16. A Large Angry SCMApr 8, 2009
  17. Alles wird Git, was Re: [PATCH] mailmap: resurrect lower-casing of email addressesJohannes Schindelin, Apr 8, 2009
  18. A Large Angry SCMApr 8, 2009
  19. A Large Angry SCMApr 4, 2009
  20. Marius Storm-OlsenApr 7, 2009

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