# Importing patches from email, which address?

2 messages from 2008-07-28 to 2008-08-04. Participants: Jon Smirl, Karl Hasselström.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/14723

## Jon Smirl, 2008-07-28 16:59

Subject: Importing patches from email, which address?
Message-ID: <9e4733910807280959h19039402kc14bfa1a3b653846@mail.gmail.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/9e4733910807280959h19039402kc14bfa1a3b653846%40mail.gmail.com

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When working with the list of author emails for the kernel, I noticed
that a lot of the author's email address are from internal mail
servers. How is the handled in git (stgit, etc..)? Is the import using
the email From:, would it be better to use Reply-to:?

-- 
Jon Smirl
jonsmirl@gmail.com

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## Karl Hasselström, 2008-08-04 09:09

Subject: Re: Importing patches from email, which address?
Message-ID: <20080804090959.GA9425@diana.vm.bytemark.co.uk>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20080804090959.GA9425%40diana.vm.bytemark.co.uk
In-Reply-To: <9e4733910807280959h19039402kc14bfa1a3b653846@mail.gmail.com>

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On 2008-07-28 12:59:24 -0400, Jon Smirl wrote:

> When working with the list of author emails for the kernel, I
> noticed that a lot of the author's email address are from internal
> mail servers. How is the handled in git (stgit, etc..)? Is the
> import using the email From:, would it be better to use Reply-to:?

I believe all relevant tools use the From: header (unless it's
overridden by a From: in the message body). I think this is how Linus
originally wanted it to work -- in the first linux-kernel commit his
e-mail is torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org, and I seem to recall him saying
something along the lines of this being a feature: others could see
which machine he commited on, and the e-mail should really be
considered more of a unique identifier than an actual real e-mail
address.

Not sure if the policy has changed since then, though.

-- 
Karl Hasselström, kha@treskal.com
      www.treskal.com/kalle

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