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Re: RFC822 From: fields

From
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Apr 26, 2008, 00:01 UTC
Message-ID
<7vod7xo55m.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
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<20080425235142.GA6347@cuci.nl>
"Stephen R. van den Berg" <srb@cuci.nl> writes:
> I noticed that the From: field generated by git-format-patch does not
> conform to RFC822 format when the realname contains a dot (like mine).
> Do we want to fix that in git-format-patch (only), or do we even want to
> fix that in the stored commit author and committer fields?

I'd suspect that the answer should be "Neither", and rather inside send-email.

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