Re: email address handling

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Aug 1, 2008, 20:07 UTC
Message-ID: <7vej58sdls.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.1.10.0808011253580.3277@nehalem.linux-foundation.org>

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:

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> On Fri, 1 Aug 2008, Andrew Morton wrote:
>> 
>> That's how I noticed it - copied, pasted, MTA barfed.
>> 
>> Converting a usable name+email-address into an unusable one seems ... unuseful.
>
> Umm. Those signed-off ones weren't even _converted_ They were written by 
> people.
>
> Also, you seemed to miss the point that it's not a name+email-address. 
>
> It's a name. Oh, and there's an email address too. But they aren't 
> connected. We often just print out the name *without* the email address. 
> Why should those things have to know about some totally irrelevant email 
> quoting rules? They weren't emails, didn't know about it, and didn't care.

One place that can matter is git-send-email.perl; IIRC, it reads from the S-o-b:, Cc: and From: lines people write, and these follow "name next to address, that does not care irrelevant email quoting rules" format. I do not think send-email currently does much about quoting them, but I think it should be the right place to do so.