Are author names ending with a dot invalid?

Are author names ending with a dot invalid?

[Felipe Contreras]

Hi,

It looks like authors ending with a dot ('Foo Jr. <foo@bar.com>') are
converted without a dot ('Foo Jr <foo@bar.com>') is that intentional?

Cheers.

-- 
Felipe Contreras

Re: Are author names ending with a dot invalid?

[Jeff King]

On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 02:14:57AM +0200, Felipe Contreras wrote:

> It looks like authors ending with a dot ('Foo Jr. <foo@bar.com>') are
> converted without a dot ('Foo Jr <foo@bar.com>') is that intentional?

I was just digging in this code today, and I noticed the same thing. The
culprit is ident.c:copy, which strips magic characters from the
beginning, end, and middle. Except that the set of magic characters is
different at the edges (see ident.c:crud), and in the middle ("<", ">",
"\n").

This dates all the way back to 6aa33f4 (Abstract out the "name <email>
date" handling of commit-tree.c, 2005-07-12), which in turn was adapting
code from earlier (though it also has the issue).

So I think it's intentional, but I also think it's wrong, and it's
simply that nobody has complained about it, because it's not that
common.

-Peff