Re: [patch] fork optional branch point normazilation
On Sun, 2005-04-17 at 16:39 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: On Sun, 17 Apr 2005, Brad Roberts wrote: braddr:x:1000:1000:Brad Roberts,,,:/home/braddr:/bin/bash All gecos entries on all my debian boxes are of the form: fullname, office number, office extension, and home number Ahh, ok. I'll make the cleanup thing just remove strange characters from the end, that should fix this kind of thing for now. I'd just remove everything after the first strange number, but I can also see people using the lastname, firstname format, and I'd hate to just ignore firstname in that case. If we get the info from /etc/passwd, then we should just use whatever before the first [,;] (see patch I posted earlier). If not, then I think AUTHOR_* should be sane). -- Martin Schlemmer signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [patch] fork optional branch point normazilation
On Sun, 17 Apr 2005, Brad Roberts wrote: (ok, author looks better, but committer doesn't obey the AUTHOR_ vars yet) They should't, but maybe I should add COMMITTER_xxx overrides. I just do _not_ want people to think that they should claim to be somebody else: it's not a security issue (you could compile your own commit-tree.c after all), it's more of a social rule thing. I prefer seeing bad email addresses that at least match the system setup to seeing good email addresses that people made up just to make them look clean. Mind showing what your /etc/passwd file looks like (just your own entry, and please just remove your password entry if you don't use shadow passwords). Maybe I should just remove _all_ strange characters when I do the name cleanup in commit. Right now I just remove the ones that matter to parsing it unambiguosly: '\n' '' and ''. (The ',' character really is special: some people have Torvalds, Linus and maybe I should not just remove the commas, I should convert it to always be Linus Torvalds. But your gecos entry is just _strange_. Why the extra commas, I wonder?) Linus - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe git in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Re: [patch] fork optional branch point normazilation
On Sun, 17 Apr 2005, Linus Torvalds wrote: On Sun, 17 Apr 2005, Brad Roberts wrote: (ok, author looks better, but committer doesn't obey the AUTHOR_ vars yet) They should't, but maybe I should add COMMITTER_xxx overrides. I just do _not_ want people to think that they should claim to be somebody else: it's not a security issue (you could compile your own commit-tree.c after all), it's more of a social rule thing. I prefer seeing bad email addresses that at least match the system setup to seeing good email addresses that people made up just to make them look clean. It seems to me like there should be a set of variables for the user in general, and the various git scripts should arrange them appropriately (e.g., git apply could look for a first Signed-Off-By, and make the AUTHOR_ variables match that (for the next commit), while making the COMMITTER match the user, etc). It seems to me like the current situation is likely to lead to people claiming to be other people when applying their patches, just due to having set up their correct info for handling their own patches. Actually, if the scripts are reorganizing them, they might as well send them on the command line. -Daniel *This .sig left intentionally blank* - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe git in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Re: [patch] fork optional branch point normazilation
On Sun, 17 Apr 2005, Linus Torvalds wrote: On Sun, 17 Apr 2005, Brad Roberts wrote: (ok, author looks better, but committer doesn't obey the AUTHOR_ vars yet) They should't, but maybe I should add COMMITTER_xxx overrides. I just do _not_ want people to think that they should claim to be somebody else: it's not a security issue (you could compile your own commit-tree.c after all), it's more of a social rule thing. I prefer seeing bad email addresses that at least match the system setup to seeing good email addresses that people made up just to make them look clean. Mind showing what your /etc/passwd file looks like (just your own entry, and please just remove your password entry if you don't use shadow passwords). Maybe I should just remove _all_ strange characters when I do the name cleanup in commit. Right now I just remove the ones that matter to parsing it unambiguosly: '\n' '' and ''. (The ',' character really is special: some people have Torvalds, Linus and maybe I should not just remove the commas, I should convert it to always be Linus Torvalds. But your gecos entry is just _strange_. Why the extra commas, I wonder?) Linus - I fully agree with the intent of the field separation, they're two very different activities. braddr:x:1000:1000:Brad Roberts,,,:/home/braddr:/bin/bash All gecos entries on all my debian boxes are of the form: fullname, office number, office extension, and home number This is taken from the chfn man page on debian. Looking on my nearest redhat box, the chfn man page is roughly the same. Debian's man page also has one snippit that's not in redhat's, suggested delimiter is a ','. A bit of searching for other platforms, aix suggests a ';' as a delimiter. HPUX seems to want a ','. Later, Brad - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe git in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Re: [patch] fork optional branch point normazilation
On Sun, 17 Apr 2005, Brad Roberts wrote: braddr:x:1000:1000:Brad Roberts,,,:/home/braddr:/bin/bash All gecos entries on all my debian boxes are of the form: fullname, office number, office extension, and home number Ahh, ok. I'll make the cleanup thing just remove strange characters from the end, that should fix this kind of thing for now. I'd just remove everything after the first strange number, but I can also see people using the lastname, firstname format, and I'd hate to just ignore firstname in that case. Linus - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe git in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
