title: Keep getting Invalid author specified. Example: A U Thor <author@example.com>
body: <p>Using Eclipse Indigo and egit, everytime I commit a pop up appears
  and has my name and email in the author and committer boxes.  They look fine.  however, egit tells me:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
  <pre><code>Invalid author specified. Example: A U Thor &lt;author@example.com&gt;
  </code></pre>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>when, I copy and paste <code>A U Thor &lt;author@example.com&gt;</code> into the author box, the message goes away. I can even edit it back to my name and email and it is fine.  which makes no sense - what was wrong with it in the first place?</p>
  
  <p>Similar problem happens with committer box.  I get:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
  <pre><code>Invalid committer specified. Example: C O Mitter &lt;committer@example.com&gt;
  </code></pre>
  </blockquote>