From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND] send-email: add 'specify-author' option Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2012 10:40:26 -0700 Message-ID: <7vr4vs6e7p.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <1333714876-21895-1-git-send-email-felipe.contreras@gmail.com> <7vobr4236g.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Felipe Contreras , Thomas Rast , Pierre Habouzit , Pascal Obry , Jay Soffian , David Brown , Matthew Wilcox , "Robin H. Johnson" , git@vger.kernel.org To: Michael Witten X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Apr 12 19:40:36 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SIO0Z-0004sP-DC for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Thu, 12 Apr 2012 19:40:35 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932234Ab2DLRka (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Apr 2012 13:40:30 -0400 Received: from b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com ([208.72.237.35]:33797 "EHLO smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757838Ab2DLRk3 (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Apr 2012 13:40:29 -0400 Received: from smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C7C16582; Thu, 12 Apr 2012 13:40:28 -0400 (EDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; s=sasl; bh=aOSSo3GPwTDGfgxbhxSZTtbw1qE=; b=wBX3F7 x0FoEIhpTwGVd29TfTv1Egs+mK2YkikZMthQ1GtJqU0s4SYWXkxBPUiooayRohix K0u53GqJ1Yt5M+X+1rzAzds5n1AOUkuwVfSNHms8mEdWipaS1zq1VV1sDwJWqeFJ 5IepS6DoIo+J6CI9Qh/fKKzvGPTB7DVR5wnqg= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; q=dns; s=sasl; b=Zdchzl1X41Uzf+4A2tkDu0qlVoyLs84O uudTg9cujo5STuqFI6dz9lLqXO6cq5r20XEBJ41qQyiUUA0FwE+DZVKYoNqFxnff SS8EYxQZUIh0TYTSrNd55SZ3y0Dihpud3nqW9OMHaVOQEvQIrUyR+3834c7p3vgJ Ap2aDqnB2c0= Received: from b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61A7F6581; Thu, 12 Apr 2012 13:40:28 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [76.102.170.102]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id CC99A6580; Thu, 12 Apr 2012 13:40:27 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Michael Witten's message of "Thu, 12 Apr 2012 15:41:06 -0000") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 978C989C-84C6-11E1-B8BC-9DB42E706CDE-77302942!b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Michael Witten writes: > I sometimes like to set an explicit in-body `Date' header. However, Junio > has disagreed vocally about this practice: > > Subject: Dates in Commits and other issues of style > (Re: [RFC 2/5] Pretty Print: show tz when using DATE_LOCAL) > Message-ID: <811b01a9-f10e-4444-9e5e-581adaf059c2-mfwitten@gmail.com> > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/171936 I do not want to see that used for patches meant for me to pick up from mbox; the reason is explained in the message the cited one is in response to. It is an entirely different matter if such a "feature" should or should not exist in the tool. I do not think I would use it myself, and as I said, I do not want anybody to use it when sending patches to this list, but that does not mean Git should not support it.