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Re: git-send-email is omitting author and date lines

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Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date
Sep 24, 2007, 00:30 UTC
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Hi,
On Mon, 24 Sep 2007, Hanspeter Kunz wrote:
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> On Sun, 2007-09-23 at 16:29 -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> > Hanspeter Kunz <hp@edelkunz.ch> writes:
> > 
> > > When sending a patch to myself using `git-send-email` I realized that
> > > the lines containing the author and the date (lines 5 and 6 in the patch
> > > file) were not in the sent email.
> > 
> > Was the commit authored by yourself?
> 
> yes. does this make a difference?

Yes, it does. The author is usually inferred from the sender of the mail, and therefore git-send-email strips that information from the message (IIRC).

Hth, Dscho

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  2. Junio C HamanoSep 23, 2007
  3. Hanspeter KunzSep 23, 2007
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  5. Hanspeter KunzSep 24, 2007
  6. martin f krafftSep 24, 2007
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  8. martin f krafftSep 24, 2007
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