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From: Quentin Schulz <quentin.schulz@theobroma-systems.com>
To: Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: tools@linux.kernel.org
Subject: Re: b4 send --output-dir eml's sent with git send-email creates two From: in the mail body
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2022 11:03:13 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <e45c9949-c3d1-302f-5694-b60da7b9579c@theobroma-systems.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20221019193208.euw2lv2d2anpzvdf@meerkat.local>

Hi Konstantin,

On 10/19/22 21:32, Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 19, 2022 at 06:23:09PM +0200, Quentin Schulz wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I recently encountered some issue with my particular setup.
>>
>> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__lore.kernel.org_lkml_20221019-2Dupstream-2Dpuma-2Dsd-2D40mhz-2Dv1-2D0-2D754a76421518-40theobroma-2Dsystems.com_raw&d=DwIBaQ&c=_sEr5x9kUWhuk4_nFwjJtA&r=LYjLexDn7rXIzVmkNPvw5ymA1XTSqHGq8yBP6m6qZZ4njZguQhZhkI_-172IIy1t&m=3N_s7FaOdYHdJMby-XVFQf58qtINncJFtBc_oRqX8C4u5PcoifqemzDuWAyza5ef&s=9tuNrkRYhAXplODVZKdP3zXXV8R8IDPhP5XNItUrsrM&e=
>> is the problematic mail, note the two From: lines in the mail body.
>>
>> This particular patch has a git author (Jakob) different from my local git
>> identity (Quentin Schulz <quentin.schulz at theobroma-systems.com>) which is
>> different from the sendemail.from configuration (Quentin Schulz <foss+kernel
>> at 0leil.net>).
> 
> I'm going to point fingers at git-send-email here, because it shouldn't stick
> another From: into the body when it already sees a From: there. You should
> report this to git maintainers as a bug.
> 

https://lore.kernel.org/git/09e125ea-5ea5-40c8-575e-57cb7e1806ff@theobroma-systems.com/ 
is the bug report to git community if anyone wants to follow the 
discussion there.

> That said...
> 
>> The eml file created by b4 send --output-dir has the From: field using the
>> current git identity which I assume is the issue.
> 
> Right, we're not doing quite the right thing here either, because when there's
> a sendemail.from set up, we should be using that instead of the user.name +
> user.email. I'll see how we can fix this up to do the right thing.
> 

Lemme know if there's anything I can help with or test.

> Thank you for the report.
> 

Thanks for the tool, it's been something I've been wanting to have for a 
while already (not a maintainer, but the shazam+prep combo is awesome 
and I'm very much looking forward to the --compare-to feature that was 
recently added).

Cheers,
Quentin

  reply	other threads:[~2022-10-20  9:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-10-19 16:23 b4 send --output-dir eml's sent with git send-email creates two From: in the mail body Quentin Schulz
2022-10-19 19:32 ` Konstantin Ryabitsev
2022-10-20  9:03   ` Quentin Schulz [this message]
2022-10-21 19:57   ` Bjorn Helgaas
2022-10-31 21:09     ` Konstantin Ryabitsev

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