From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2008 21:25:44 GMT
Subject: Re: email address handling
Message-ID: <7v4p64sa07.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0808012314580.9611@pacific.mpi-cbg.de.mpi-cbg.de>

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

> On Fri, 1 Aug 2008, Andrew Morton wrote:
>
>> I very very frequently copy and paste name+email address out of git 
>> output and into an MUA.  Have done it thousands and thousands of times, 
>> and it has always worked.  I'm sure that many others do the same thing.

>
> $ git log --pretty=email
>
> after this patch:

You are quoting only Author: and not Signed-off-by: and Cc: that are used
for e-mail purposes.  I already said send-email is the right place to do
this kind of thing, didn't I?  Your patch makes things worse by making
some <name, mail> pair already quoted and some others don't.

Please don't do this.