Re: git-send-email is omitting author and date lines

From: Hanspeter Kunz <hp@edelkunz.ch>
Date: Sep 24, 2007, 07:16 UTC
Message-ID: <1190618182.6916.1.camel@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0709240129450.28395@racer.site>

On Mon, 2007-09-24 at 01:30 +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

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> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, 24 Sep 2007, Hanspeter Kunz wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, 2007-09-23 at 16:29 -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> > > Hanspeter Kunz <hp@edelkunz.ch> writes:
> > > 
> > > > When sending a patch to myself using `git-send-email` I realized that
> > > > the lines containing the author and the date (lines 5 and 6 in the patch
> > > > file) were not in the sent email.
> > > 
> > > Was the commit authored by yourself?
> > 
> > yes. does this make a difference?
> 
> Yes, it does.  The author is usually inferred from the sender of the mail, 
> and therefore git-send-email strips that information from the message 
> (IIRC).

Ah, I see. And this applies also to the date, I guess.

Many thanks, Hp.