From: Catalin Marinas Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 08:32:08 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Don't require config file for "stg mail" Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <1164842841.23643.28.camel@dv> On 29/11/06, Pavel Roskin wrote: > On Wed, 2006-11-29 at 16:29 +0000, Catalin Marinas wrote: > > Your patch uses the author of the patch which can be different from > > the person sending the e-mail. It could indeed use the author from GIT > > variables or configuration (not the patch author) and I already have a > > patch from Karl Hasselström for this (which I haven't found the time > > to check properly). > > The funny thing it, GIT_AUTHOR_NAME and GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL are only used > in the code to determine the author of the patch. Yes, but only for a newly created patch. If you import a patch from an mbox or e-mail or simply pass the --author option to "new", the author will be different. --