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: Fri, 03 Apr 2009 21:51:42 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49D6BD2E.2030208@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0904030447480.10279@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>
Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, 2 Apr 2009, A Large Angry SCM wrote:
>
>> Johannes Schindelin wrote:
>>
>>> 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.
>
> Well, I _did_! I have at least _one_ repository where the case
> insensitive email addresses worked, and got fscked over, by having Git
> change behavior behind my back!
>
>>> 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?
>
> You chose a rather inappropriate moment to start one of those damned
> flamewars -- I am in the middle of some rather important day-job meeting,
> plus two projects in the deadline-is-looming GSoC frenzy.
>
> In case it was not clear yet: if I have to chose between following a
> standard and reality that just took over, I will _always_ choose the
> latter.
>
> If you take this mail to start a flamewar for real (i.e. not answer to my
> concerns, but point out that standard X says bla, and that everybody else
> should just obey, oh, and fix their ways as of 20 years), please do remove
> me from the Cc: list.
This is not worth a flame-war, and Peff has already created a response
superior to my own, so I'll leave to Junio to find the best(TM) path.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-04 1:53 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
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 ` A Large Angry SCM [this message]
2009-04-07 5:52 ` [PATCH] mailmap: resurrect lower-casing of email addresses Marius Storm-Olsen
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