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From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mailmap: resurrect lower-casing of email addresses
Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2009 01:08:44 +0200 (CEST)
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Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
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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_.

In the alternative, can I ask you to adjust my .mailmap in your free time?

Thankyouverymuch,
Dscho