git/list[1] front-page[2] threads[3] people[4] search[5] about
 

[PATCH] contrib/hooks/post-receive-email: add a From: line to the email header

From
Gerrit Pape <pape@smarden.org>
Date
Nov 8, 2007, 09:48 UTC
Message-ID
<20071108094809.22151.qmail@97f06c2e73713e.315fe32.mid.smarden.org>

$committer is already extracted from the latest existing rev, so add the corresponding From: line to the email header.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Pape <pape@smarden.org>
---
 contrib/hooks/post-receive-email |    1 +
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/contrib/hooks/post-receive-email b/contrib/hooks/post-receive-email
index 3904c18..c73f2d5 100644
--- a/contrib/hooks/post-receive-email
+++ b/contrib/hooks/post-receive-email
@@ -189,6 +189,7 @@ generate_email_header()
 	# --- Email (all stdout will be the email)
 	# Generate header
 	cat <<-EOF
+	From: $committer
 	To: $recipients
 	Subject: ${emailprefix}$projectdesc $refname_type, $short_refname, ${change_type}d. $describe
 	X-Git-Refname: $refname
-- 
1.5.3.5
Next: Junio C Hamano
Message 1 of 5 in “contrib/hooks/post-receive-email: add a From: line to the email header”
  1. contrib/hooks/post-receive-email: add a From: line to the email headerGerrit Pape, Nov 8, 2007
  2. Junio C HamanoNov 8, 2007
  3. Andreas EricssonNov 8, 2007
  4. contrib/hooks/post-receive-email: remove cruft, $committer is not usedGerrit Pape, Nov 8, 2007
  5. Benoit SigoureJan 22, 2008

Read the whole thread, see it on lore, or plain text.

$ cat FOOTERMessages come from the public archive at lore.kernel.org/git, fetched every hour. The front page is chosen and written each morning by an AI editor and can be wrong; the threads themselves are the record. About and API. For agents: an MCP server at https://gitlist.dev/mcp, and any thread, story or person page as Markdown by adding .md to its URL (or sending Accept: text/markdown). Details in /llms.txt.