Thread (4 messages) 4 messages, 2 authors, 2021-05-16
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[PATCH v2] mailinfo: don't discard names under 3 characters

From: edef <hidden>
Date: 2021-05-16 15:07:53
Subsystem: the rest · Maintainer: Linus Torvalds

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/
Signed-off-by: edef <redacted>
---
Rebased and with Signed-off-by this time :)

 mailinfo.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/mailinfo.c b/mailinfo.c
index 95ce191f38..626228654c 100644
--- a/mailinfo.c
+++ b/mailinfo.c
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ static void cleanup_space(struct strbuf *sb)
 static void get_sane_name(struct strbuf *out, struct strbuf *name, struct strbuf *email)
 {
 	struct strbuf *src = name;
-	if (name->len < 3 || 60 < name->len || strpbrk(name->buf, "@<>"))
+	if (!name->len || 60 < name->len || strpbrk(name->buf, "@<>"))
 		src = email;
 	else if (name == out)
 		return;
-- 
2.30.0
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