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From: A Large Angry SCM <gitzilla@gmail.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mailmap: resurrect lower-casing of email addresses
Date: Thu, 02 Apr 2009 18:58:02 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <49D542FA.3070304@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7v63hmekyv.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

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.

  reply	other threads:[~2009-04-02 22:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <cover.1238458535u.git.johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2009-03-31  0:18 ` [PATCH] mailmap: resurrect lower-casing of email addresses Johannes Schindelin
2009-04-02 22:22   ` A Large Angry SCM
2009-04-02 22:39     ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-04-02 22:42       ` Junio C Hamano
2009-04-02 22:58         ` A Large Angry SCM [this message]
2009-04-02 23:08           ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-04-02 23:17             ` A Large Angry SCM
2009-04-03  2:52               ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-04-03 12:45                 ` Jeff King
2009-04-04  1:32                 ` A Large Angry SCM
2009-04-06  9:16                   ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-04-07  2:08                     ` A Large Angry SCM
2009-04-07 11:16                       ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-04-07 19:58                         ` Markus Heidelberg
2009-04-08  9:36                           ` Alles wird Git, was " Johannes Schindelin
2009-04-08  0:50                         ` A Large Angry SCM
2009-04-08  2:21                           ` Alles wird Git, was " Johannes Schindelin
2009-04-08 11:20                             ` Alles wird Git A Large Angry SCM
2009-04-04  1:51                 ` [PATCH] mailmap: resurrect lower-casing of email addresses A Large Angry SCM
2009-04-07  5:52   ` Marius Storm-Olsen

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