From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2010 19:06:24 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] am: use get_author_ident_from_commit instead of mailinfo when rebasing
Message-ID: <7vzkyuer0v.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <1276672360-15816-1-git-send-email-jaysoffian@gmail.com>

Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com> writes:

> In certain situations, commit authorship can consist of an invalid
> e-mail address. For example, this is the case when working with git svn
> repos where the author email has had the svn repo UUID appended such as:
>
>  author@example.com <author@example.com@deadbeef-dead-beef-dead-beefdeadbeef>
>
> Given such an address, mailinfo extracts the authorship incorrectly as
> it assumes a valid domain. However, when rebasing the original
> authorship should be preserved irrespective of its validity as an email
> address.

This justifies the motivation very well.  Thanks.