Re: git am mangles commit author name.

From: Daniel F <nanotube@gmail.com>
Date: Jul 13, 2010, 14:54 UTC
Message-ID: <AANLkTinPCZ79vwZ9eVeHChgTuFGBrz3ACi_grM28Q5Y-@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20100713054949.GB2425@burratino>

Hi Jonathan,

Thanks for your response!

On 7/13/10, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> wrote:

> The commit author showed up with name and email address as I expected.
> What did I do wrong?
>
> Alternatively: could you send the first few lines of your .patch file?

I figured it out :) This was the from line:
From: bc <email@somedomain.net>

Apparently, git-am fails when the username is just one word. if i put a space between the b and the c, it works just fine.

However... do you not think that it is still a bug? Is it not quite reasonable for a person to want to identify with just a nick, rather than a full first and last name?

And more to the immediate point... is there any way i can get git am to do what i want? :)

Thanks, Daniel