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Re: Importing patches from email, which address?

From
Karl Hasselström <kha@treskal.com>
Date
Aug 4, 2008, 09:09 UTC
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<20080804090959.GA9425@diana.vm.bytemark.co.uk>
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On 2008-07-28 12:59:24 -0400, Jon Smirl wrote:
> When working with the list of author emails for the kernel, I
> noticed that a lot of the author's email address are from internal
> mail servers. How is the handled in git (stgit, etc..)? Is the
> import using the email From:, would it be better to use Reply-to:?

I believe all relevant tools use the From: header (unless it's overridden by a From: in the message body). I think this is how Linus originally wanted it to work -- in the first linux-kernel commit his e-mail is torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org, and I seem to recall him saying something along the lines of this being a feature: others could see which machine he commited on, and the e-mail should really be considered more of a unique identifier than an actual real e-mail address.

Not sure if the policy has changed since then, though.
-- 
Karl Hasselström, kha@treskal.com
      www.treskal.com/kalle
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  1. Jon SmirlJul 28, 2008
  2. Karl HasselströmAug 4, 2008

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