> Yes, it does:
>
-> joey@kodama:~/tmp/foo/bar>git commit --author "foo"
-> fatal: malformed --author parameter
+> joey@kodama:~/tmp/foo/bar>git commit --author "foo"
+> fatal: malformed --author parameter
>
> It seems to be happy with anything of the form "foo <foo>" -- doesn't seem to
> do any kind of strict checking. Even "http://joey.kitenet.net <>" will be