{"thread":{"id":"15558","subject":"Submitting patches from unsubscribed authors?","startedAt":"2008-09-16T23:24:48Z","lastAt":"2008-09-16T23:48:11Z","messageCount":4,"participants":["Jonathan del Strother","Jeff King"],"isPatch":false,"patchVersion":null,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"90874","messageId":"57518fd10809161624u3b2937dmd36e0fc962ea7a7@mail.gmail.com","threadId":"15558","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"Submitting patches from unsubscribed authors?","fromName":"Jonathan del Strother","fromEmail":"maillist@steelskies.com","sentAt":"2008-09-16T23:24:48Z","receivedAt":"2008-09-16T23:24:48Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"jon.delstrother@bestbefore.tv","avatar":"https://gravatar.com/avatar/754e21ab701c00e2d21fc261187254c34b2a1c0b959d9ee5be1a295990be3081?d=mp&s=160"},"body":"Is it possible to submit a patch to the mailing list, from an author\nthat isn't subscribed? Last time I submitted a patch I went via my\nthrowaway email address, and so that was used as the commit author.\nIt looks like \"git am\" is always going to just use the email address\nused to post to the mailing list as the email address, but I'm sure in\nthe past that my patches have appeared under my real email. Was that\njust manual intervention by the maintainer?\n"},{"id":"90878","messageId":"20080916233613.GA14251@coredump.intra.peff.net","threadId":"15558","inReplyTo":"57518fd10809161624u3b2937dmd36e0fc962ea7a7@mail.gmail.com","subject":"Re: Submitting patches from unsubscribed authors?","fromName":"Jeff King","fromEmail":"peff@peff.net","sentAt":"2008-09-16T23:36:14Z","receivedAt":"2008-09-16T23:36:14Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"peff@peff.net","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/45925?v=4"},"body":"On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 12:24:48AM +0100, Jonathan del Strother wrote:\n\n> Is it possible to submit a patch to the mailing list, from an author\n> that isn't subscribed? Last time I submitted a patch I went via my\n\nYes. The list accepts mail from non-subscribers.\n\n> throwaway email address, and so that was used as the commit author.\n> It looks like \"git am\" is always going to just use the email address\n> used to post to the mailing list as the email address, but I'm sure in\n> the past that my patches have appeared under my real email. Was that\n> just manual intervention by the maintainer?\n\nYes, it pulls it from the From: header. However, you can override that\nby including\n\n From: Your Real Name \n\nas the first line of the mail. git-send-email will do this for you\nautomagically if the commit author and your email sending address are\nnot the same.\n\nLook at some of your previous patches to the list; they have this line.\n\n-Peff\n"},{"id":"90882","messageId":"57518fd10809161644v348bd347xeed0bc7cb35805a1@mail.gmail.com","threadId":"15558","inReplyTo":"20080916233613.GA14251@coredump.intra.peff.net","subject":"Re: Submitting patches from unsubscribed authors?","fromName":"Jonathan del Strother","fromEmail":"maillist@steelskies.com","sentAt":"2008-09-16T23:44:55Z","receivedAt":"2008-09-16T23:44:55Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"jon.delstrother@bestbefore.tv","avatar":"https://gravatar.com/avatar/754e21ab701c00e2d21fc261187254c34b2a1c0b959d9ee5be1a295990be3081?d=mp&s=160"},"body":"On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 12:36 AM, Jeff King wrote:\n> On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 12:24:48AM +0100, Jonathan del Strother wrote:\n>\n>> Is it possible to submit a patch to the mailing list, from an author\n>> that isn't subscribed? Last time I submitted a patch I went via my\n>\n> Yes. The list accepts mail from non-subscribers.\n\nAh. I was getting mail rejected when I was trying to use my real\nemail address, but now I look more closely, they're rejected because I\nwas sending via a local postfix server & it didn't recognise the\nhostname. Doh...\n\n\n>> throwaway email address, and so that was used as the commit author.\n>> It looks like \"git am\" is always going to just use the email address\n>> used to post to the mailing list as the email address, but I'm sure in\n>> the past that my patches have appeared under my real email. Was that\n>> just manual intervention by the maintainer?\n\n>\n> Yes, it pulls it from the From: header. However, you can override that\n> by including\n>\n> From: Your Real Name \n>\n> as the first line of the mail. git-send-email will do this for you\n> automagically if the commit author and your email sending address are\n> not the same.\n>\n> Look at some of your previous patches to the list; they have this line.\n>\n\nI assumed that I was confusing git-send-email with my multiple email\naddresses and that was a broken header. git-am will work fine with\nthat second From: line being embedded in the commit message, then?\n"},{"id":"90884","messageId":"20080916234811.GB14405@coredump.intra.peff.net","threadId":"15558","inReplyTo":"57518fd10809161644v348bd347xeed0bc7cb35805a1@mail.gmail.com","subject":"Re: Submitting patches from unsubscribed authors?","fromName":"Jeff King","fromEmail":"peff@peff.net","sentAt":"2008-09-16T23:48:11Z","receivedAt":"2008-09-16T23:48:11Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"peff@peff.net","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/45925?v=4"},"body":"On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 12:44:55AM +0100, Jonathan del Strother wrote:\n\n> I assumed that I was confusing git-send-email with my multiple email\n> addresses and that was a broken header. git-am will work fine with\n> that second From: line being embedded in the commit message, then?\n\nYep. It's a feature. See git-am(1), section \"DISCUSSION\".\n\n-Peff\n"}]}