Re: [BUG] You can't have single quote in your username

From: Giuseppe Crinò <giuscri@gmail.com>
Date: Aug 23, 2019, 07:20 UTC
Message-ID: <CAGV3M54RZn9pWe=R-qfm0UCU6TOhLc7-6H60Zf03gOe5Sq6wzw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqy2zlp3qn.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>

On Thu, Aug 22, 2019 at 6:24 PM Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

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> The logic there exists in order to remove cruft around the name on a
> typical e-mail header (remember, most of the very core-ish part of
> the Git was written and got solidified back when the Linux kernel
> was the primary client of the system, and many commits were created
> via "am"), e.g. sender's mail client may send something like this:
>
>     From: 'Foo bar Baz' <my@name.xz>
>
> and we do not want to take surrounding sq pair as part of the name.

I see but _standard_ rules to escape characters should apply as I understand this. 'Foo bar Baz\'s' should be allowed as it should "Foo bar Baz's". They should resolve to the same name too