From: Linus Torvalds Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2008 22:39:37 GMT Subject: Re: email address handling Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20080801152720.56dbff09.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Btw, the real issue here is - why do you want to make things uglier and make up stupid rules that are irrelevant to git, just for something that you admit you hadn't ever even _noticed_ until now, and now that you know about it it's not even a problem any more? especially as - we know people won't do the quoting _anyway_, since we actually have tons of examples of that in the kernel as-is. Quoting should be for _tools_, not for people. And even if we did it, we probably wouldn't be fully rfc2822-compliant anyway, because anybody sane would decide to not quote '@' and '.', rigth? Because those don't actually really have special meaning (yeah, they are "special" characters in rfc-2822, but nobody cares, and the MUA can do it for us, no)? So now we'd actually not really be rfc-compliant _anyway_, because everybody really realizes just how annoying that would really be. Linus