From: Thomas Rast <trast@inf.ethz.ch>
Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2012 19:47:58 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND] send-email: add 'specify-author' option
Message-ID: <87d37kr6a9.fsf@thomas.inf.ethz.ch>
In-Reply-To: <1333714876-21895-1-git-send-email-felipe.contreras@gmail.com>

Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> writes:

> Some mail servers (Microsoft Exchange) mangle the 'From' header, so
> while applying the patches, the author has to be fixed manually.
>
> This option allows to always specify the author of the commit in the
> body of the message, even if the committer is the author.

I imagine a user forced to send her email over such a broken server
would have this problem all the time.  Wouldn't a config option be in
order?

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Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch