Re: [PATCH 5/6] http: Avoid limit of retrying request only twice

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: May 4, 2012, 09:28 UTC
Message-ID: <20120504092814.GA24398@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <4FA3AD72.1010407@seap.minhap.es>

On Fri, May 04, 2012 at 12:20:34PM +0200, Nelson Benitez Leon wrote:

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> On 05/04/2012 09:24 AM, Jeff King wrote:
> > On Thu, May 03, 2012 at 06:40:28PM +0200, Nelson Benitez Leon wrote:
> > 
> >> [snip]
> >>
> >> Now we retry as long as we keep receiving HTTP_REAUTH, so the previous
> >> sequence correctly completes.
> >>
> >> Patch by Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
> > 
> > We usually spell that as:
> > 
> >   From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
> > 
> > at the beginning of the email body (which lets am set the author
> > appropriately).
> 
> Are you saying the first line of the email body? isn't that for the
> commit message first-line? I suppose you're not refering to the 'from
> field' of the email as I would need alter identities in my email client
> and found that cumbersome. Sorry for me not getting it and asking for
> clarification.

Yes, that's what I am saying. When Junio applies the patch using "git am", git will recognize these extra "pseudo-headers" at the top of the body, remove them from the commit message, and override the email headers with them.

It does this for exactly this case; you can leave your email headers intact, but still provide attribution to someone else.

-Peff