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/
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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