From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: "Kyle J. McKay" <mackyle@gmail.com>,
Git mailing list <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] pretty: allow formatting names as initials
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2016 13:32:39 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160929173239.c62vv3gtdoz3r6ij@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqq37kihatp.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 10:31:30AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> > When I first tested it with "git log --format=%aS" I had to wonder "who
> > the heck is ntnd?". So using only the first-and-last would match the git
> > project's practice better, at least.
>
> And there is also "isalpha() good enough?" question.
>
> I think we have a few Chinese and Hangul as well as Cyrillic names
> in our history, some of them having outside-ascii first letters.
> One of the more prolific contributor's initial is ÆAB ;-)
Heh, true. In case it was not clear, these were mostly quick-and-dirty
patches. I think the right test is probably '!isspace()".
-Peff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-09-29 17:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-09-29 5:34 [PATCH/RFC] git log --oneline alternative with dates, times and initials Kyle J. McKay
2016-09-29 8:33 ` Jeff King
2016-09-29 8:33 ` [PATCH 1/5] pretty: allow formatting DATE_SHORT Jeff King
2016-09-30 6:17 ` Jacob Keller
2016-09-30 10:56 ` SZEDER Gábor
2016-09-30 22:04 ` Jacob Keller
2016-10-01 9:18 ` Jeff King
2016-09-29 8:36 ` [PATCH 2/5] pretty: allow formatting names as initials Jeff King
2016-09-29 17:31 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-09-29 17:32 ` Jeff King [this message]
2016-09-29 8:37 ` [PATCH 3/5] graph: fix extra spaces in graph_padding_line Jeff King
2016-09-29 8:38 ` [PATCH 4/5] graph: helper functions for printing commit header Jeff King
2016-09-29 8:38 ` [PATCH 5/5] log: add --commit-header option Jeff King
2016-09-29 17:49 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-09-29 18:31 ` Jeff King
2016-09-29 11:00 ` [PATCH/RFC] git log --oneline alternative with dates, times and initials Kyle J. McKay
2016-09-29 12:52 ` Jeff King
2016-09-29 17:38 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-09-29 18:30 ` Jeff King
2016-09-29 18:50 ` Junio C Hamano
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