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From: Hanspeter Kunz <hp@edelkunz.ch>
Subject: Re: git-send-email is omitting author and date lines
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 09:16:22 +0200
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On Mon, 2007-09-24 at 01:30 +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, 24 Sep 2007, Hanspeter Kunz wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, 2007-09-23 at 16:29 -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> > > Hanspeter Kunz <hp@edelkunz.ch> writes:
> > > 
> > > > When sending a patch to myself using `git-send-email` I realized that
> > > > the lines containing the author and the date (lines 5 and 6 in the patch
> > > > file) were not in the sent email.
> > > 
> > > Was the commit authored by yourself?
> > 
> > yes. does this make a difference?
> 
> Yes, it does.  The author is usually inferred from the sender of the mail, 
> and therefore git-send-email strips that information from the message 
> (IIRC).

Ah, I see. And this applies also to the date, I guess.

Many thanks,
Hp.