Re: [PATCH] mailmap: resurrect lower-casing of email addresses

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Apr 3, 2009, 02:52 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0904030447480.10279@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>
In-Reply-To: <49D54799.9010607@gmail.com>

Hi,

On Thu, 2 Apr 2009, A Large Angry SCM wrote:

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> Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 2 Apr 2009, A Large Angry SCM wrote:
> > 
> > > Junio C Hamano wrote:
> > > > Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
> > > >
> > > > > > What part of the email address is this going to lowercase? 
> > > > > > Only the domain name is case agnostic.
> > > >
> > > > That is my understanding of RFC, too.  Let's see where this mail 
> > > > goes to find out how much more lenient the real world is ;-).
> > > >
> > > Many email providers/servers are lenient when it comes to case in 
> > > the local part of an email address (after all, they control the 
> > > interpretation) but not every provider/server is and the RFC is VERY 
> > > clear on this issue.
> > 
> > And in one of my projects it is _very_ clear that this strict 
> > interpretation of the RFC, which does not matter in reality, 
> > _actively_ _hurts_.
> 
> Care to provide actual justification for that statement.

Well, I _did_! I have at least _one_ repository where the case insensitive email addresses worked, and got fscked over, by having Git change behavior behind my back!

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> > In the alternative, can I ask you to adjust my .mailmap in your free 
> > time?
> 
> _Your_ .mailmap file is your issue.
> 
> So which standards do you choose to follow and which do you choose to 
> ignore?

You chose a rather inappropriate moment to start one of those damned flamewars -- I am in the middle of some rather important day-job meeting, plus two projects in the deadline-is-looming GSoC frenzy.

In case it was not clear yet: if I have to chose between following a standard and reality that just took over, I will _always_ choose the latter.

If you take this mail to start a flamewar for real (i.e. not answer to my concerns, but point out that standard X says bla, and that everybody else should just obey, oh, and fix their ways as of 20 years), please do remove me from the Cc: list.

Ciao, Dscho