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Re: Submitting patches from unsubscribed authors?

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Sep 16, 2008, 23:36 UTC
Message-ID
<20080916233613.GA14251@coredump.intra.peff.net>
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<57518fd10809161624u3b2937dmd36e0fc962ea7a7@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 12:24:48AM +0100, Jonathan del Strother wrote:
> Is it possible to submit a patch to the mailing list, from an author
> that isn't subscribed?  Last time I submitted a patch I went via my
Yes. The list accepts mail from non-subscribers.
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> throwaway email address, and so that was used as the commit author.
> It looks like "git am" is always going to just use the email address
> used to post to the mailing list as the email address, but I'm sure in
> the past that my patches have appeared under my real email.  Was that
> just manual intervention by the maintainer?

Yes, it pulls it from the From: header. However, you can override that by including

  From: Your Real Name <yourrealaddress>

as the first line of the mail. git-send-email will do this for you automagically if the commit author and your email sending address are not the same.

Look at some of your previous patches to the list; they have this line.
-Peff
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