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Re: Git is removing . from the last part of user.name

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TJThomas J. Faughnan Jr. <thomas@faughnan.net>
Date
Jul 30, 2023, 21:38 UTC
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> On a somewhat lesser note, I'm tempted to say that "." probably was
> never that useful (compared to say, comma, which is the gecos
> separator), and we could probably just drop it from the crud list.

Would this change still be considered? Or alternatively a git config option to ignore "." when checking if a character is crud?

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