From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: A Large Angry SCM Subject: Re: [PATCH] mailmap: resurrect lower-casing of email addresses Date: Thu, 02 Apr 2009 19:17:45 -0400 Message-ID: <49D54799.9010607@gmail.com> References: <49D53ABF.80706@gmail.com> <7v63hmekyv.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <49D542FA.3070304@gmail.com> Reply-To: gitzilla@gmail.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Junio C Hamano , git@vger.kernel.org To: Johannes Schindelin X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Apr 03 01:19:25 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LpWBv-0007om-E0 for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Fri, 03 Apr 2009 01:19:23 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757284AbZDBXRw (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Apr 2009 19:17:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752403AbZDBXRv (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Apr 2009 19:17:51 -0400 Received: from an-out-0708.google.com ([209.85.132.245]:9468 "EHLO an-out-0708.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751454AbZDBXRt (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Apr 2009 19:17:49 -0400 Received: by an-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id d14so629885and.1 for ; Thu, 02 Apr 2009 16:17:47 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id :disposition-notification-to:date:from:reply-to:user-agent :mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=3mp8LdRXDClgywW7tFb2iZweQdyXiFMSsBEI2n85CfE=; b=qCqvAJk1IYdVUjvljY346WcfH608JkC35hM9obZVRnAqfGXMk/UaK2NMw1MsxJ0E6T +kHXP1zNxa95SAgZrVNMQ82r7lAIM564xbsYrh3W5DS0huXhk8qjJFVcdVPSw3OOlgOi j8A2V/DYaBx/Xf/YTwkVlRcTuHnNXp7vwKPwI= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:disposition-notification-to:date:from:reply-to :user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=sOcySX4wgCsQIu7+uNMqjwtEEjPxoRweQqARkTOEmY6xGGVaZYTK0+fkrPMqS8ypOh B2F0QCrvDFtA3JWnsRQthoP5GIOhYjpVF0T2bl5sIJ+RcRTSwU9iXzjJuBIQNZm/qnFg PZw8kM9TTxAymi4qu4q/zz5352O5VrTAsgZgg= Received: by 10.100.178.9 with SMTP id a9mr1039226anf.116.1238714267358; Thu, 02 Apr 2009 16:17:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?10.0.0.6? (c-66-177-19-100.hsd1.fl.comcast.net [66.177.19.100]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id c9sm4681130ana.13.2009.04.02.16.17.46 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 02 Apr 2009 16:17:47 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (X11/20060911) In-Reply-To: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Johannes Schindelin wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, 2 Apr 2009, A Large Angry SCM wrote: > >> Junio C Hamano wrote: >>> Johannes Schindelin 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?