From: Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2011 08:56:01 GMT
Subject: Re: Git Rebase blows away GIT_AUTHOR_NAME
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On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 9:45 AM, Tor Arntsen <tor@spacetec.no> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 19:20, Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@gmail.com> wrote:
>>[..] Besides, a name of
>> two characters aren't really sane. You'd need at least three
>> characters to form a first/last name pair.
>
> 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.