{"thread":{"id":"14723","subject":"Importing patches from email, which address?","startedAt":"2008-07-28T16:59:24Z","lastAt":"2008-08-04T09:09:59Z","messageCount":2,"participants":["Jon Smirl","Karl Hasselström"],"isPatch":false,"patchVersion":null,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"85307","messageId":"9e4733910807280959h19039402kc14bfa1a3b653846@mail.gmail.com","threadId":"14723","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"Importing patches from email, which address?","fromName":"Jon Smirl","fromEmail":"jonsmirl@gmail.com","sentAt":"2008-07-28T16:59:24Z","receivedAt":"2008-07-28T16:59:24Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"jonsmirl@gmail.com","avatar":"https://gravatar.com/avatar/cff3bf5bfdfa6708b905712ff91f0f9b8aaca161659f38c02b787920d5d28b7e?d=mp&s=160"},"body":"When working with the list of author emails for the kernel, I noticed\nthat a lot of the author's email address are from internal mail\nservers. How is the handled in git (stgit, etc..)? Is the import using\nthe email From:, would it be better to use Reply-to:?\n\n-- \nJon Smirl\njonsmirl@gmail.com\n"},{"id":"86162","messageId":"20080804090959.GA9425@diana.vm.bytemark.co.uk","threadId":"14723","inReplyTo":"9e4733910807280959h19039402kc14bfa1a3b653846@mail.gmail.com","subject":"Re: Importing patches from email, which address?","fromName":"Karl Hasselström","fromEmail":"kha@treskal.com","sentAt":"2008-08-04T09:09:59Z","receivedAt":"2008-08-04T09:09:59Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"kha@treskal.com","avatar":"https://gravatar.com/avatar/f0120c734b5279b345075a28521e1ac66acb20c9913ffe9bf6ae97e53f7f3f13?d=mp&s=160"},"body":"On 2008-07-28 12:59:24 -0400, Jon Smirl wrote:\n\n> When working with the list of author emails for the kernel, I\n> noticed that a lot of the author's email address are from internal\n> mail servers. How is the handled in git (stgit, etc..)? Is the\n> import using the email From:, would it be better to use Reply-to:?\n\nI believe all relevant tools use the From: header (unless it's\noverridden by a From: in the message body). I think this is how Linus\noriginally wanted it to work -- in the first linux-kernel commit his\ne-mail is torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org, and I seem to recall him saying\nsomething along the lines of this being a feature: others could see\nwhich machine he commited on, and the e-mail should really be\nconsidered more of a unique identifier than an actual real e-mail\naddress.\n\nNot sure if the policy has changed since then, though.\n\n-- \nKarl Hasselström, kha@treskal.com\n      www.treskal.com/kalle\n"}]}