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Re: Double From:s in StGIT's patch email template

From
Karl Hasselström <kha@treskal.com>
Date
Nov 11, 2006, 14:40 UTC
Message-ID
<20061111144057.GG11224@diana.vm.bytemark.co.uk>
In-Reply-To
<20061111113553.GA11224@diana.vm.bytemark.co.uk>
On 2006-11-11 12:35:53 +0100, Karl Hasselström wrote:
> StGIT's default patch email template has both "From: %(maintainer)s"
> in the e-mail header, and "From: %(authname)s <%(authemail)s>" in
> the e-mail body. Why?

Ah, I just figured it out. "maintainer" is the person sending the mail, and "author" is the person who wrote the patch. In general, they are not the same.

Hmm. It would be nice to omit the second From: in case they really are the same.

-- 
Karl Hasselström, kha@treskal.com
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Message 17 of 17 in “Double From:s in StGIT's patch email template”
  1. Karl HasselströmNov 11, 2006
  2. Author name and e-mail address in .stgitrcKarl Hasselström, Nov 11, 2006
  3. Robin RosenbergNov 11, 2006
  4. Karl HasselströmNov 11, 2006
  5. Robin RosenbergNov 11, 2006
  6. Karl HasselströmNov 11, 2006
  7. Catalin MarinasNov 11, 2006
  8. 0/3 Re: Author name and e-mail address in .stgitrcKarl Hasselström, Nov 11, 2006
  9. 1/3 Ask git for author and committer nameKarl Hasselström, Nov 11, 2006
  10. Karl HasselströmNov 11, 2006
  11. Catalin MarinasDec 4, 2006
  12. Karl HasselströmDec 5, 2006
  13. Catalin MarinasDec 5, 2006
  14. 2/3 Don't mention deprecated template variablesKarl Hasselström, Nov 11, 2006
  15. 3/3 Deprecate author and committer details in stgitrcKarl Hasselström, Nov 11, 2006
  16. Karl HasselströmNov 12, 2006
  17. Karl HasselströmNov 11, 2006

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