Re: git send-email sets date

From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Date: Jan 28, 2018, 22:12 UTC
Message-ID: <20180128221231.GB13621@thunk.org>
In-Reply-To: <001601d39850$a0a48ae0$e1eda0a0$@iee.org>

On Sun, Jan 28, 2018 at 03:56:57PM -0000, Philip Oakley wrote:

> Michal, you may want to hack up an option that can automatically create 
> that format if it is of use. I sometimes find the sort order an issue in 
> some of my mail clients.

If there is a From: header in the beginning of the mail body, it is used as the Author instead of the From: header in the mail header. It would make sense if there is a Date: header in the beginning of the mail body, it should be used instead of Date: field in the mail header.

The problem is that if existing git clients don't support this, it wouldn't be safe to start emmiting patches with that format for at least a year or two until the prerequisite version of git gets wide adoption. Alternatively, there could be a git option which causes something like X-Git-Author-Date: to be set in the mail header.

	       			  	   	- Ted