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Re: Git Rebase blows away GIT_AUTHOR_NAME

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TATor Arntsen <tor@spacetec.no>
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Jan 14, 2011, 09:24 UTC
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On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 09:56, Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 9:45 AM, Tor Arntsen <tor@spacetec.no> wrote:
>> I think I've mentioned this before in another thread, but first/last
>> name isn't universal, not even within countries where it's the common
>> form. When I was as student there was a fellow student from another
>> scandinavian country and his legal, full name consisted of a single
>> letter.
>>
>
> I'm curious, what Scandinavian country was this? Because as a
> Norwegian, I know a lot of people from all Scandinavian country, yet
> I've never heard of such names. In Norway, I the shortest legal name
> I've ever heard of was five characters.

Sweden (I'm Norwegian too - this guy was a Swede studying in Norway). Admittedly I have only that single example, and it was back in the late seventies. His name was accepted as legal by Statens Lånekasse (bank for students) and when the loans arrived his single-letter name would be found at the very end of the long lists of wide listing-paper printouts from the bank that was stiched up on the billboard wall outside the administration offices. The loans arrived a couple of times per year but we always had to go looking - the rest of us were just amazed that we could really find that single letter down there and he wasn't bs'ing the rest of us about his name.

I'm not sure why there's a 3-letter limit on git author names.. but I would suggest it should be set down to 1 letter minimum.. below that would, I think, be overdoing it..

-Tor
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  1. JT OldsJan 12, 2011
  2. Jeff KingJan 12, 2011
  3. JT OldsJan 13, 2011
  4. JT OldsJan 13, 2011
  5. Erik Faye-LundJan 13, 2011
  6. JT OldsJan 13, 2011
  7. Erik Faye-LundJan 13, 2011
  8. Tor ArntsenJan 14, 2011
  9. Erik Faye-LundJan 14, 2011
  10. Tor ArntsenJan 14, 2011
  11. Erik Faye-LundJan 14, 2011
  12. JT OldsJan 14, 2011
  13. Linus TorvaldsJan 14, 2011
  14. Erik Faye-LundJan 14, 2011
  15. Jeff KingJan 14, 2011
  16. Erik Faye-LundJan 14, 2011
  17. Jeff KingJan 14, 2011
  18. Jay SoffianJan 14, 2011
  19. Junio C HamanoJan 14, 2011
  20. Jeff KingJan 14, 2011
  21. Junio C HamanoJan 14, 2011
  22. Jeff KingJan 17, 2011
  23. Erik Faye-LundJan 17, 2011
  24. JT OldsJan 18, 2011
  25. Jay SoffianJan 19, 2011
  26. Tor ArntsenJan 14, 2011
  27. Erik Faye-LundJan 14, 2011
  28. Linus TorvaldsJan 14, 2011
  29. Erik Faye-LundJan 14, 2011
  30. Jeff KingJan 13, 2011

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