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

From: A Large Angry SCM <gitzilla@gmail.com>
Date: Apr 2, 2009, 23:17 UTC
Message-ID: <49D54799.9010607@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0904030107320.10279@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>

Johannes Schindelin wrote:

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> Hi,
> 
> On Thu, 2 Apr 2009, A Large Angry SCM wrote:
> 
>> Junio C Hamano wrote:
>>> 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.
> 
> 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.

> 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?