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From: Thomas Rast <trast@inf.ethz.ch>
To: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Cc: <git@vger.kernel.org>, Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>,
	"Pierre Habouzit" <madcoder@debian.org>,
	Michael Witten <mfwitten@MIT.EDU>,
	"Pascal Obry" <pascal@obry.net>,
	Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>, David Brown <git@davidb.org>,
	Adam Roben <aroben@apple.com>,
	Nanako Shiraishi <nanako3@lavabit.com>,
	Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>,
	"Robin H. Johnson" <robbat2@gentoo.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND] send-email: add 'specify-author' option
Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2012 21:47:58 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d37kr6a9.fsf@thomas.inf.ethz.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1333714876-21895-1-git-send-email-felipe.contreras@gmail.com> (Felipe Contreras's message of "Fri, 6 Apr 2012 15:21:13 +0300")

Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> writes:

> Some mail servers (Microsoft Exchange) mangle the 'From' header, so
> while applying the patches, the author has to be fixed manually.
>
> This option allows to always specify the author of the commit in the
> body of the message, even if the committer is the author.

I imagine a user forced to send her email over such a broken server
would have this problem all the time.  Wouldn't a config option be in
order?

-- 
Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch

  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-04-06 19:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-04-06 12:21 [PATCH RESEND] send-email: add 'specify-author' option Felipe Contreras
2012-04-06 12:32 ` Felipe Contreras
2012-04-06 17:14 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-04-06 19:42   ` Felipe Contreras
2012-04-06 20:22     ` Junio C Hamano
2012-04-06 21:48       ` Felipe Contreras
2012-04-06 22:30         ` Junio C Hamano
2012-04-07 11:46           ` Felipe Contreras
2012-04-08  4:45             ` Junio C Hamano
2012-04-12 15:59           ` Michael Witten
2012-04-12 15:41     ` Michael Witten
2012-04-12 17:40       ` Junio C Hamano
2012-04-06 19:47 ` Thomas Rast [this message]
2012-04-06 21:30   ` Felipe Contreras

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