From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Jonathan del Strother" Subject: Re: Submitting patches from unsubscribed authors? Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2008 00:44:55 +0100 Message-ID: <57518fd10809161644v348bd347xeed0bc7cb35805a1@mail.gmail.com> References: <57518fd10809161624u3b2937dmd36e0fc962ea7a7@mail.gmail.com> <20080916233613.GA14251@coredump.intra.peff.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "Git Mailing List" To: "Jeff King" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Sep 17 01:46:06 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 1KfkFB-0005si-1L for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Wed, 17 Sep 2008 01:46:05 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752465AbYIPXo5 (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Sep 2008 19:44:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752483AbYIPXo5 (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Sep 2008 19:44:57 -0400 Received: from py-out-1112.google.com ([64.233.166.180]:48010 "EHLO py-out-1112.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752373AbYIPXo4 (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Sep 2008 19:44:56 -0400 Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id p76so2178316pyb.10 for ; Tue, 16 Sep 2008 16:44:55 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:sender :to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references :x-google-sender-auth; bh=DOdx2PbGqNfTyL0/HXQuj/MtunYbRsdO1qSMCeD46w0=; b=RjkRTueyriE0R61duEhTkTFvz+WrVX7AXr/NrS521qFurQEioTXb+AZiJhSc2msBDr EvpMEKMTYCgkXOF+QNgFRt6yLflSEa/tzMxlnJKhvBJsToXB6UgpTNzO5JpDiT9fjsHq xrzvKx8eMdUEvGuhAYGlfW1SNUxOv5HrqPYB0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references:x-google-sender-auth; b=l4XMal04IXAKUz5JY9HPA9FPt8FlE3c8dvCgX2KXWfRXBqPhyrEsLn05dUtzW07Gq2 BEEnhdBxaVJDhEEWtqJCiFFWOQJ/X5968Dwg/C/Iqk/8KNU1eA5wwEVqUA8nsANHywSN 6MJsRz6n3v7IN4M3TFTwjJRTrf4sis4rFP73k= Received: by 10.142.193.13 with SMTP id q13mr599943wff.118.1221608695264; Tue, 16 Sep 2008 16:44:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.143.6.3 with HTTP; Tue, 16 Sep 2008 16:44:55 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20080916233613.GA14251@coredump.intra.peff.net> Content-Disposition: inline X-Google-Sender-Auth: 04ce40e0d0f6ea22 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 12:36 AM, Jeff King 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 > > 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?