# Submitting patches from unsubscribed authors?

4 messages from 2008-09-16 to 2008-09-16. Participants: Jonathan del Strother, Jeff King.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/15558

## Jonathan del Strother, 2008-09-16 23:24

Subject: Submitting patches from unsubscribed authors?
Message-ID: <57518fd10809161624u3b2937dmd36e0fc962ea7a7@mail.gmail.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/57518fd10809161624u3b2937dmd36e0fc962ea7a7%40mail.gmail.com

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Is it possible to submit a patch to the mailing list, from an author
that isn't subscribed?  Last time I submitted a patch I went via my
throwaway email address, and so that was used as the commit author.
It looks like "git am" is always going to just use the email address
used to post to the mailing list as the email address, but I'm sure in
the past that my patches have appeared under my real email.  Was that
just manual intervention by the maintainer?

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## Jeff King, 2008-09-16 23:36

Subject: Re: Submitting patches from unsubscribed authors?
Message-ID: <20080916233613.GA14251@coredump.intra.peff.net>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20080916233613.GA14251%40coredump.intra.peff.net
In-Reply-To: <57518fd10809161624u3b2937dmd36e0fc962ea7a7@mail.gmail.com>

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On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 12:24:48AM +0100, Jonathan del Strother wrote:

> Is it possible to submit a patch to the mailing list, from an author
> that isn't subscribed?  Last time I submitted a patch I went via my

Yes. The list accepts mail from non-subscribers.

> throwaway email address, and so that was used as the commit author.
> It looks like "git am" is always going to just use the email address
> used to post to the mailing list as the email address, but I'm sure in
> the past that my patches have appeared under my real email.  Was that
> just manual intervention by the maintainer?

Yes, it pulls it from the From: header. However, you can override that
by including

  From: Your Real Name <yourrealaddress>

as the first line of the mail. git-send-email will do this for you
automagically if the commit author and your email sending address are
not the same.

Look at some of your previous patches to the list; they have this line.

-Peff

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## Jonathan del Strother, 2008-09-16 23:44

Subject: Re: Submitting patches from unsubscribed authors?
Message-ID: <57518fd10809161644v348bd347xeed0bc7cb35805a1@mail.gmail.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/57518fd10809161644v348bd347xeed0bc7cb35805a1%40mail.gmail.com
In-Reply-To: <20080916233613.GA14251@coredump.intra.peff.net>

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On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 12:36 AM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 12:24:48AM +0100, Jonathan del Strother wrote:
>
>> Is it possible to submit a patch to the mailing list, from an author
>> that isn't subscribed?  Last time I submitted a patch I went via my
>
> Yes. The list accepts mail from non-subscribers.

Ah.  I was getting mail rejected when I was trying to use my real
email address, but now I look more closely, they're rejected because I
was sending via a local postfix server & it didn't recognise the
hostname.  Doh...


>> throwaway email address, and so that was used as the commit author.
>> It looks like "git am" is always going to just use the email address
>> used to post to the mailing list as the email address, but I'm sure in
>> the past that my patches have appeared under my real email.  Was that
>> just manual intervention by the maintainer?

>
> Yes, it pulls it from the From: header. However, you can override that
> by including
>
>  From: Your Real Name <yourrealaddress>
>
> as the first line of the mail. git-send-email will do this for you
> automagically if the commit author and your email sending address are
> not the same.
>
> Look at some of your previous patches to the list; they have this line.
>

I assumed that I was confusing git-send-email with my multiple email
addresses and that was a broken header.  git-am will work fine with
that second From: line being embedded in the commit message, then?

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## Jeff King, 2008-09-16 23:48

Subject: Re: Submitting patches from unsubscribed authors?
Message-ID: <20080916234811.GB14405@coredump.intra.peff.net>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20080916234811.GB14405%40coredump.intra.peff.net
In-Reply-To: <57518fd10809161644v348bd347xeed0bc7cb35805a1@mail.gmail.com>

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On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 12:44:55AM +0100, Jonathan del Strother wrote:

> I assumed that I was confusing git-send-email with my multiple email
> addresses and that was a broken header.  git-am will work fine with
> that second From: line being embedded in the commit message, then?

Yep. It's a feature. See git-am(1), section "DISCUSSION".

-Peff

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