You must be one of the few ones. According to the RFC's, you should quote
pretty much any punctuation mark, including "." itself. Which means that
things like
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
should be quoted if they were email addresses.
That would be very irritating.
It's even _more_ irritating for things like D'Souza (or Giuseppe D'Eliseo
to take a real example from the kernel). For David, we could just not use
the "S." - for others, the special characters are very much part of the
name. It would also be very irritating for important messages like
Signed-off-by: Linus "I'm a moron" Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
etc, where it sure as heck isn't a rfc2822-compliant email address.
So the thing is, "strict email format" is just very annoying. Git does
know how to do (well, it _should_) it for "git send-email", but making the
human-readable output ugly just because somebody might want to
cut-and-paste it sounds really sad.
You could cut-and-paste just the stuff inside the angle branckets, though.
That should work.
Linus
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