Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] validation on git config user.email

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2025 09:29:22 -0700

<[email-masked]> writes:

> Some customers integrate single sign-on (SSO) via the user.email value. In the case
> of one customer I helped, the value is an SSO token used by GitHub for their
> integration. The token value does not conform to any valid email address format.
> Adding an email validation will lock them out of using git.

That is a very good point.  We need to remember that not all users
use the value of the field we define to be "email" to send emails
to, just like some people use "name" field to store something that
is not their name.