From: Junio C Hamano Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 21:40:32 GMT Subject: Re: Diffs "from" working directory Message-ID: <7vhda5of1r.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> In-Reply-To: Catalin Marinas writes: > My import command sets the author to the e-mail sender, which was you. > Maybe this should be changed but I don't know which option is better. > In the meantime, you can change the default e-mail template to set the > From: line with to the author of the patch and maybe add a Reply-to: > with your address. ... and Sender: perhaps? The first lines in the commit log message sent over e-mail can have "Subject: " (or "[PATCH] "), "From: ", and "Date: " to override what is slurped from e-mail headers if you use mailinfo, so that might be a better alternative to suggest.