From: Junio C Hamano Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2012 17:40:26 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND] send-email: add 'specify-author' option Message-ID: <7vr4vs6e7p.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: Michael Witten writes: > I sometimes like to set an explicit in-body `Date' header. However, Junio > has disagreed vocally about this practice: > > Subject: Dates in Commits and other issues of style > (Re: [RFC 2/5] Pretty Print: show tz when using DATE_LOCAL) > Message-ID: <811b01a9-f10e-4444-9e5e-581adaf059c2-mfwitten@gmail.com> > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/171936 I do not want to see that used for patches meant for me to pick up from mbox; the reason is explained in the message the cited one is in response to. It is an entirely different matter if such a "feature" should or should not exist in the tool. I do not think I would use it myself, and as I said, I do not want anybody to use it when sending patches to this list, but that does not mean Git should not support it.