From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Rast Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND] send-email: add 'specify-author' option Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2012 21:47:58 +0200 Message-ID: <87d37kr6a9.fsf@thomas.inf.ethz.ch> References: <1333714876-21895-1-git-send-email-felipe.contreras@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Cc: , Thomas Rast , "Pierre Habouzit" , Michael Witten , "Pascal Obry" , Jay Soffian , David Brown , Adam Roben , Nanako Shiraishi , Matthew Wilcox , "Robin H. Johnson" To: Felipe Contreras X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Apr 06 21:48:16 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 1SGF8o-0006rb-7e for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Fri, 06 Apr 2012 21:48:14 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757868Ab2DFTsE (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Apr 2012 15:48:04 -0400 Received: from edge20.ethz.ch ([82.130.99.26]:17036 "EHLO edge20.ethz.ch" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757671Ab2DFTsD (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Apr 2012 15:48:03 -0400 Received: from CAS11.d.ethz.ch (172.31.38.211) by edge20.ethz.ch (82.130.99.26) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 14.2.283.3; Fri, 6 Apr 2012 21:47:59 +0200 Received: from thomas.inf.ethz.ch.ethz.ch (80.219.158.96) by CAS11.d.ethz.ch (172.31.38.211) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 14.1.355.2; Fri, 6 Apr 2012 21:47:59 +0200 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") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.3 (gnu/linux) X-Originating-IP: [80.219.158.96] Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Felipe Contreras 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