Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> writes:

quoted text
> On Fri, 1 Aug 2008 12:34:58 -0700 (PDT)
> Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
>> And Andrew, this is true of Signed-off-by: lines too, btw. If you actually 
>> want to send emails to them, _then_ you need to add quotes to follow the 
>> email rules. 
>
> That's how I noticed it - copied, pasted, MTA barfed.
>
> Converting a usable name+email-address into an unusable one seems ... unuseful.

Name is used not just for pasting into your MUA.  For example, if your
shortlog output showed this, it would be "funny looking":

    "Zhang, Rui" (4):
            ...

    Andrew Morton (20):
            ...
            ...
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