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Re: What shall we do with the GECOS field again?

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Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date
Sep 20, 2005, 06:30 UTC
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Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> writes:
> Does not appear to be.  So I'd vote for us doing the "cut at
> first comma, substitute & with toupper(login[0])+login[1..]".
I've done this in the proposed updates branch.
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  1. Petr BaudisSep 19, 2005
  2. Kevin O'RiordanSep 19, 2005
  3. Matthias UrlichsSep 19, 2005
  4. A Large Angry SCMSep 19, 2005
  5. Matthias UrlichsSep 19, 2005
  6. A Large Angry SCMSep 19, 2005
  7. Petr BaudisSep 19, 2005
  8. Junio C HamanoSep 19, 2005
  9. Petr BaudisSep 19, 2005
  10. Linus TorvaldsSep 19, 2005
  11. Junio C HamanoSep 19, 2005
  12. Linus TorvaldsSep 19, 2005
  13. Ryan AndersonSep 20, 2005
  14. Linus TorvaldsSep 20, 2005
  15. Junio C HamanoSep 20, 2005
  16. Nikolai WeibullSep 19, 2005
  17. Nikolai WeibullSep 19, 2005
  18. Junio C HamanoSep 20, 2005
  19. Junio C HamanoSep 20, 2005
  20. Nikolai WeibullSep 20, 2005

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