From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff King Subject: Re: Submitting patches from unsubscribed authors? Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2008 19:36:14 -0400 Message-ID: <20080916233613.GA14251@coredump.intra.peff.net> References: <57518fd10809161624u3b2937dmd36e0fc962ea7a7@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Cc: Git Mailing List To: Jonathan del Strother X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Sep 17 01:37:28 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Kfk6o-0003M6-TB for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Wed, 17 Sep 2008 01:37:27 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752362AbYIPXgT (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Sep 2008 19:36:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752354AbYIPXgT (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Sep 2008 19:36:19 -0400 Received: from peff.net ([208.65.91.99]:4688 "EHLO peff.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752259AbYIPXgS (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Sep 2008 19:36:18 -0400 Received: (qmail 25353 invoked by uid 111); 16 Sep 2008 23:36:15 -0000 Received: from coredump.intra.peff.net (HELO coredump.intra.peff.net) (10.0.0.2) by peff.net (qpsmtpd/0.32) with SMTP; Tue, 16 Sep 2008 19:36:15 -0400 Received: by coredump.intra.peff.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Tue, 16 Sep 2008 19:36:14 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <57518fd10809161624u3b2937dmd36e0fc962ea7a7@mail.gmail.com> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 12:24:48AM +0100, Jonathan del Strother wrote: > Is it possible to submit a patch to the mailing list, from an author > that isn't subscribed? Last time I submitted a patch I went via my Yes. The list accepts mail from non-subscribers. > throwaway email address, and so that was used as the commit author. > It looks like "git am" is always going to just use the email address > used to post to the mailing list as the email address, but I'm sure in > the past that my patches have appeared under my real email. Was that > just manual intervention by the maintainer? Yes, it pulls it from the From: header. However, you can override that by including From: Your Real Name as the first line of the mail. git-send-email will do this for you automagically if the commit author and your email sending address are not the same. Look at some of your previous patches to the list; they have this line. -Peff