From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2022 20:14:13 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] format-patch: allow forcing the use of in-body From: header
Message-ID: <Yw5vlTCJQCovVbAl@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <Yw5t9mfaIi647Qbl@coredump.intra.peff.net>

On Tue, Aug 30, 2022 at 04:07:18PM -0400, Jeff King wrote:

> All that said, I don't care _too_ strongly about it. I do suspect the
> feature might be better placed in send-email (or possibly in addition).
> If you are using send-email, then I think you're not supposed to use
> "--from" with format-patch at all, and you have no way of accessing this
> feature.

This "not supposed to" came from me looking at the documentation. But
this discussion implies that it's maybe not that big a deal:

  https://lore.kernel.org/git/xmqq8twlqwan.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com/

Apparently we were considering enabling "--from" by default, but I don't
think that ever happened.

-Peff