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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Use /etc/mailname for the hostname part of the email address.
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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:

> The thing is, I actually personally tend to _prefer_ the committer name as 
> being "user@hostname" rather than a "real" email address.
>
> It often tells you something much more.

I remember you said exactly the same thing before.  But I wonder
if "committer" e-mail address is really the place you would want
to use as (one of) the source of reliable information for that
kind of thing.  The information obviously can be used among
people who exchange commits via git-pull, but what about people
whose changes are always fed as e-mailed patches?

For such people, if they would want to encode the auxiliary
information in their author name like you do with g5 and woody,
would you recommend they put the in-body From: header, which may
not be working e-mail addresses to reach them?