Preserving non-alphanumeric characters in git commits [was Re: porting to NeXTstep]

[Gary V. Vaughan]

Hi Bruno,

On 15 Oct 2011, at 07:08, Bruno Haible wrote:
> In git log, your committer name comes out as
> "Daniel Richard G <address@hidden>"
> aithough I used the option --author="Daniel Richard G. <address@hidden>".
> I don't know how to make 'git' preserve the trailing period.

I have lost the final dev version of my clcommit script, but thanks to Libtool
needing to work with 'Gary V. Vaughan' and "Peter O'Gorman", I had to be sure
it worked all along :)  Despite not having the script to check, I'm pretty
sure it was just a matter of quoting carefully:

   --author='"Daniel Richard G." <address@hidden>'
   --author='"Peter O'\''Gorman" <address@hidden>'

HTH,
-- 
Gary V. Vaughan (gary AT gnu DOT org)