Re: [PATCH RESEND] send-email: add 'specify-author' option

From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Date: Apr 6, 2012, 21:30 UTC
Message-ID: <CAMP44s3rBSsMQfa4QPsGyfOi2uf6neY4aADFRCuJXhnFJV=2tQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <87d37kr6a9.fsf@thomas.inf.ethz.ch>

On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 10:47 PM, Thomas Rast <trast@inf.ethz.ch> wrote:

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> 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?

There is a config option, but I guess I forgot to add the documentation.

Cheers.

-- 
Felipe Contreras