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Importing patches from email, which address?

From
Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>
Date
Jul 28, 2008, 16:59 UTC
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<9e4733910807280959h19039402kc14bfa1a3b653846@mail.gmail.com>

When working with the list of author emails for the kernel, I noticed that a lot of the author's email address are from internal mail servers. How is the handled in git (stgit, etc..)? Is the import using the email From:, would it be better to use Reply-to:?

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