From 5e5128ed1cf4223fd32a36f858263d361ade5310 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org>
Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2005 16:52:54 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Remove extraneous ',' ';' and '.' characters from the full
 name gecos field.

Apparently some distributions tend to have space for phone numbers etc there.
---
 commit-tree.c | 15 +++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+)

diff --git a/commit-tree.c b/commit-tree.c
index b2095754..93f3a579 100644
--- a/commit-tree.c
+++ b/commit-tree.c
@@ -96,6 +96,21 @@ static void remove_special(char *p)
 		if (!c)
 			break;
 	}
+
+	/*
+	 * Go back, and remove crud from the end: some people
+	 * have commas etc in their gecos field
+	 */
+	dst--;
+	while (--dst >= p) {
+		unsigned char c = *dst;
+		switch (c) {
+		case ',': case ';': case '.':
+			*dst = 0;
+			continue;
+		}
+		break;
+	}
 }
 
 static const char *month_names[] = {
-- 
2.11.0