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

> "Thomas J. Faughnan Jr." <thomas@faughnan.net> writes:
> 
> >> 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?
> 
> That is certainly a blast from the past ;-)
> 
> I actually was wondering the opposite should be done, i.e. be
> consistent and remove '.'  just like '<' and '>' even from the
> middle of names.  '.' in the human-readable name part anywhere on
> To: and Cc: lines, not just at the end, causes mailers to barf,
> unless such name is quoted.