From: A Large Angry SCM <gitzilla@gmail.com>
To: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mailmap: resurrect lower-casing of email addresses
Date: Thu, 02 Apr 2009 19:17:45 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49D54799.9010607@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0904030107320.10279@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>
Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, 2 Apr 2009, A Large Angry SCM wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> And in one of my projects it is _very_ clear that this strict
> interpretation of the RFC, which does not matter in reality, _actively_
> _hurts_.
Care to provide actual justification for that statement.
> In the alternative, can I ask you to adjust my .mailmap in your free time?
_Your_ .mailmap file is your issue.
So which standards do you choose to follow and which do you choose to
ignore?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-02 23:19 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
2009-04-02 23:08 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-04-02 23:17 ` A Large Angry SCM [this message]
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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