Using the name of the committer of the revision at the tip of the updated ref is not sensible. That information is available in the email itself should it be wanted, and by supplying a "From", we were effectively hiding the person who performed the push - which is useful information in itself.
Signed-off-by: Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com> --- contrib/hooks/post-receive-email | 1 - 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/contrib/hooks/post-receive-email b/contrib/hooks/post-receive-email index 1f88099..cbbd02f 100644 --- a/contrib/hooks/post-receive-email +++ b/contrib/hooks/post-receive-email @@ -177,7 +177,6 @@ generate_email_header() # --- Email (all stdout will be the email) # Generate header cat <<-EOF - From: $committer To: $recipients Subject: ${EMAILPREFIX}$projectdesc $refname_type, $short_refname, ${change_type}d. $describe X-Git-Refname: $refname
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