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Re: git-send-email is omitting author and date lines

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Sep 24, 2007, 18:43 UTC
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martin f krafft <madduck@madduck.net> writes:
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> also sprach Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> [2007.09.24.1210 +0100]:
>> And that is perfectly okay, since as far as the public is
>> concerned, this is the date of the patch.
>
> If you say so. I don't find this at all convincing.

I think that is the reasoning for the current behaviour of send-email, but it is not unreasonable to have an option to always add in-body From: and Date: headers to send-email, with a blessing from a recent post from Linus to the kernel mailing list:

	http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/582450

Notice the part he says he appreciates Andrew's practice and talks about message being further forwarded by somebody else.

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Message 9 of 9 in “git-send-email is omitting author and date lines”
  1. Hanspeter KunzSep 23, 2007
  2. Junio C HamanoSep 23, 2007
  3. Hanspeter KunzSep 23, 2007
  4. Johannes SchindelinSep 24, 2007
  5. Hanspeter KunzSep 24, 2007
  6. martin f krafftSep 24, 2007
  7. Johannes SchindelinSep 24, 2007
  8. martin f krafftSep 24, 2007
  9. Junio C HamanoSep 24, 2007

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