From: Junio C Hamano Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2008 20:07:59 GMT Subject: Re: email address handling Message-ID: <7vej58sdls.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: Linus Torvalds writes: > 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.