Re: [BUG] You can't have single quote in your username

[Pratyush Yadav <me@yadavpratyush.com>]

On 22/08/19 10:08AM, Emily Shaffer wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 22, 2019 at 09:58:48AM -0700, Bryan Turner wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 22, 2019 at 5:32 AM Giuseppe Crinò <giuscri@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Note how `git log` discards the ending quote character:
> > 
> > <snip>
> > 
> > > root@NBR1710R:~/repo# git add foo
> > > root@NBR1710R:~/repo# git commit -m 'first'
> > > [master (root-commit) a78e11f] first
> > >  Committer: Les Actualite <root@NBR1710R>
> > 
> > If you look closely here, in the "git commit" output, you can see
> > that, as Pratyush indicated, it was actually "git commit" that dropped
> > the trailing apostrophe, and "git log" is simply presenting the
> > information as it exists in the repository.
> > 
> > If your goal is an accented "e", wouldn't it be better to set your
> > name using é, rather than a trailing apostrophe? "git commit" would
> > likely preserve that without issue.
> 
> Hmm, I don't think it's a good idea to get into the business of telling
> contributors how to write their names. There tends to be an axiom that
> "all assumptions developers make about human names are false."
> 
> Does it make more sense to replace this strbuf_addstr_without_crud()
> setup with something more intelligent (i.e. checking for matching crud
> on either end, like ^[$crudchars].*\1$? We already check for matched <>.

Sounds like something easy enough to implement. There are two types of 
characters that crud() removes: there are the ones which _should_ appear 
on both the start and end (', ", <, >), and the ones which don't 
necessarily have to (., ,, :, ;, \).

So we'd need to handle two cases. For the former type, remove a 
character both at the start and at the end. For the latter, remove only 
where they appear.

If this sounds like something reasonable to do, I'll send a patch fixing 
this.

-- 
Regards,
Pratyush Yadav