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Re: [PATCH] mailinfo: parse From header more strictly when run from rebase

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Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
Date
Jun 15, 2010, 17:01 UTC
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On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 12:41 PM, Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 12:14 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>> Sorry, but it is unclear from your message what problem you are trying to
>> solve, what your desired outcome is, and why you think that outcome is
>> desired.  The bracketed one shown above does _not_ look like a valid email
>> address, so using
>>
>>    name = "author@example.com"
>>    email = "author@example.com@11B4..."
>>
>> does not sound like a good thing to do to begin with.

In fact, that is an invalid email address (I thought it might be valid per historical source-routed syntax, but I just checked the RFCs and it's not even valid for that). Nonetheless, my goal is that I can rebase a commit without the address (even an invalid one) being munged.

j.
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  1. mailinfo: parse From header more strictly when run from rebaseJay Soffian, Jun 7, 2010
  2. Junio C HamanoJun 15, 2010
  3. Jay SoffianJun 15, 2010
  4. Jay SoffianJun 15, 2010

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