Re: email address handling

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Aug 1, 2008, 20:40 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.1.10.0808011335230.3277@nehalem.linux-foundation.org>
In-Reply-To: <20080801132415.0b0314e4.akpm@linux-foundation.org>

On Fri, 1 Aug 2008, Andrew Morton wrote:

> 
> pls read earlier email.

I did. It seems that your complaint is:

> So unless he explicitly typed a "From:" line (without quoting his name)
> into the top of his changelog, some piece of software somewhere has
> stripped the quotes when it was converting his name from the email
> headers into the git Author: line.

And yes, git will strip out all the crap and try to make it into a real name.

The part _you_ don't seem to understand is that my point is

 - git changed that "From:" line to an "Author:" line

 - "git log" isn't an email system. It's a human-readable (and 
   machine-parseable, for that matter) log.

If you want to turn it into emails, you need to follow the email rules. You're cutting-and-pasting anyway, it's not like this is fundamentally hard.

		Linus