From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2018 20:41:28 GMT
Subject: Re: git send-email sets date
Message-ID: <xmqqk1vzt6yv.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <20180128221231.GB13621@thunk.org>

Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> writes:

> If there is a From: header in the beginning of the mail body, it is
> used as the Author instead of the From: header in the mail header.  It
> would make sense if there is a Date: header in the beginning of the
> mail body, it should be used instead of Date: field in the mail header.

Just like From:, Date: and Subject: are in-body headers that are
accepted by deployed versions of "git am" (actually, "mailinfo").