From: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2010 17:01:40 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mailinfo: parse From header more strictly when run from rebase
Message-ID: <AANLkTimmJEGf8UeGxJHhTn1BPiCQEoqhz4KkIiP5qewS@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTina5G9P-OkGAoia0DeJhPygRaoaiI7tXDRHgjtF@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 12:41 PM, Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.