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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: edef <edef@edef.eu>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mailinfo: don't discard names under 3 characters
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2020 05:06:54 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200130100654.GA840101@coredump.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191220003948.60272-1-edef@edef.eu>

On Fri, Dec 20, 2019 at 12:39:48AM +0000, edef wrote:

> I sometimes receive patches from people with short mononyms, and in my
> cultural environment these are not uncommon. To my dismay, git-am
> currently discards their names, and replaces them with their email
> addresses.
> 
> Link: https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-names/
> ---
> I'm not *completely* sure there's even a case where `src = email` is 
> the right thing to do, but I'd rather not modify this code more than 
> strictly necessary.

I think this makes sense. There's a lot of heuristic voodoo in this old
mailinfo code, but I think getting people's legitimate short names wrong
is worse than the likelihood that this is actually helping some
broken-parsing case in any meaningful way. I suspect this code predates
us parsing the headers carefully according to the standard (it looks to
be from 2744b2344d on 2005-04-11, which is quite early!).

The 60-char maximum also seems like something people might run afoul of
in certain cultures. Is it worth bumping, too?

I think your patch slipped through the cracks, coming as it did over the
holidays. It's probably worth re-posting it (with your signed-off-by).

-Peff

  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-01-30 10:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-12-20  0:39 [PATCH] mailinfo: don't discard names under 3 characters edef
2019-12-20 13:37 ` edef
2020-01-30 10:06 ` Jeff King [this message]
2021-05-16 15:07   ` [PATCH v2] " edef
2021-05-16 22:57     ` Junio C Hamano

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