Re: [patch v3] checkpatch: Signature format verification

[Randy Dunlap]

On Mon, 23 May 2011 21:31:29 -0400 Mike Frysinger wrote:

> On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 21:24,  <Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Mon, 23 May 2011 18:51:42 EDT, Mike Frysinger said:
> >> On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 14:09, Joe Perches wrote:
> >> >    167     Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@xxxxxxx>
> >>
> >> personally, i dont think those quotes should be there
> >
> > Although not strictly required by the ABNF of RFC822 and its successors, it's
> > probably a wise thing to apply the double quotes in this case anyhow, due to
> > the fairly high likelyhood that some software will choke on the ' character in
> > Ted's last name if unquoted.
> 
> then people will notice their software blows and they'll fix it
> 
> i dont have a problem with "over" quoting with the From/To/CC headers
> in say `git format-patch` or `git send-email`, but i dont think they
> make sense in s-o-b/related tags.

They certainly facilitate copy-and-paste at least.

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~Randy
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