From: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2010 14:31:43 GMT
Subject: Re: git am mangles commit author name.
Message-ID: <AANLkTilZJ0g-XbkOsMh3Q1Jo7XQ2dbT1cY-YP_BdXvuh@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTim6Ax-4SVJU_LvR86SyD5q3VhCfGBlGOkSPTocL@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 14:16, Tor Arntsen <tor@spacetec.no> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 17:11, Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 10:54 AM, Daniel F <nanotube@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Apparently, git-am fails when the username is just one word.
>>
>> And is less than 3 characters.
> [..]
>
> When I was a student a long time ago there was another (European)
> student there with a single-letter name.
> His legal name was 'Z'. It was printed like that in all official
> documents I ever saw, including bank accounts and loan papers, so it
> wasn't just some nickname he was using.

A lot of people also use their nicknames for their real name in Git,
and plenty of people have 1-3 letter nicks.