From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 18:43:29 GMT
Subject: Re: git-send-email is omitting author and date lines
Message-ID: <7vodfraoq6.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20070924173014.GB27816@lapse.madduck.net>

martin f krafft <madduck@madduck.net> writes:

> 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.