Re: Submitting patches from unsubscribed authors?

["Jonathan del Strother" <maillist@steelskies.com>]

On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 12:36 AM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> 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.

Ah.  I was getting mail rejected when I was trying to use my real
email address, but now I look more closely, they're rejected because I
was sending via a local postfix server & it didn't recognise the
hostname.  Doh...


>> 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 <yourrealaddress>
>
> 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.
>

I assumed that I was confusing git-send-email with my multiple email
addresses and that was a broken header.  git-am will work fine with
that second From: line being embedded in the commit message, then?