From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johannes Schindelin Subject: Re: [PATCH] mailmap: resurrect lower-casing of email addresses Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2009 04:52:46 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: References: <49D53ABF.80706@gmail.com> <7v63hmekyv.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <49D542FA.3070304@gmail.com> <49D54799.9010607@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Junio C Hamano , git@vger.kernel.org To: A Large Angry SCM X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Apr 03 04:52:51 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 1LpZWM-0006ix-Eq for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Fri, 03 Apr 2009 04:52:42 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754454AbZDCCu2 (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Apr 2009 22:50:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753628AbZDCCu1 (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Apr 2009 22:50:27 -0400 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:32892 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1752554AbZDCCu0 (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Apr 2009 22:50:26 -0400 Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 03 Apr 2009 02:50:22 -0000 Received: from pacific.mpi-cbg.de (EHLO pacific.mpi-cbg.de) [141.5.10.38] by mail.gmx.net (mp060) with SMTP; 03 Apr 2009 04:50:22 +0200 X-Authenticated: #1490710 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1/VTow/pcrV6hpcc/7KMF9LAj5Hxd6/9LE6u297xf MU5lahQFz2/uEr X-X-Sender: schindelin@pacific.mpi-cbg.de In-Reply-To: <49D54799.9010607@gmail.com> User-Agent: Alpine 1.00 (DEB 882 2007-12-20) X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-FuHaFi: 0.58 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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 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. Ciao, Dscho