Re: Git Rebase blows away GIT_AUTHOR_NAME

> (CC'ed Linus, as he wrote mailinfo's sanity-checking)
>
> On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 10:24 AM, Tor Arntsen <tor@spacetec.no> wrote:
>> 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..
>>
>
> Linus, you wrote sanity_check (from 2744b23). Do you remember if there
> were any specific reason for the minimum length of 3 of an
> author-name? It seems that in Sweden, legal names can be even a single
> letter (see Tor's comment)...
>