From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 03 Jul 2013 08:58:22 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] format-patch handling in-body From headers
Message-ID: <7vd2r0ggup.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20130703070719.GA17638@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> However, doing it right is kind of tricky due to rfc822 quoting, rfc2047
> encoding, and handling non-ascii names correctly. Instead, this patch
> series takes a different approach: it teaches format-patch to do the
> transformation itself, so that it can be used by my script along with
> any other non-send-email workflows that exist (e.g., git-imap-send
> suffers from the same problem).

I think the original expectation when format-patch was done was to
use Sender: to identify you while keeping the author on From:, but
with the current world order to use in-body header, this addition
makes sense.

I wonder if we can lose some code from send-email then?