From: A Large Angry SCM Date: Sat, 04 Apr 2009 01:51:42 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] mailmap: resurrect lower-casing of email addresses Message-ID: <49D6BD2E.2030208@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Johannes Schindelin wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, 2 Apr 2009, A Large Angry SCM wrote: > >> Johannes Schindelin wrote: >> >>> On Thu, 2 Apr 2009, A Large Angry SCM wrote: >>> >>>> Junio C Hamano wrote: >>>>> Johannes Schindelin 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. > > Well, I _did_! I have at least _one_ repository where the case > insensitive email addresses worked, and got fscked over, by having Git > change behavior behind my back! > >>> 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? > > You chose a rather inappropriate moment to start one of those damned > flamewars -- I am in the middle of some rather important day-job meeting, > plus two projects in the deadline-is-looming GSoC frenzy. > > In case it was not clear yet: if I have to chose between following a > standard and reality that just took over, I will _always_ choose the > latter. > > If you take this mail to start a flamewar for real (i.e. not answer to my > concerns, but point out that standard X says bla, and that everybody else > should just obey, oh, and fix their ways as of 20 years), please do remove > me from the Cc: list. This is not worth a flame-war, and Peff has already created a response superior to my own, so I'll leave to Junio to find the best(TM) path.