Re: Git Rebase blows away GIT_AUTHOR_NAME

> On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 09:56, Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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..
>