[oe] different addresses in author/From and Signed-off-by (was: [PATCH 1/1] matrix_gui: Update SRCREV)

Denys Dmytriyenko denis at denix.org
Tue Jun 7 22:02:25 UTC 2011


Correct, that should be controlled by sendemail.envelopesender configuration options if you always send to the list under different email address. BTW, sorry for top posting. 

Denys

Paul Menzel <paulepanter at users.sourceforge.net> wrote:

>Am Dienstag, den 07.06.2011, 14:44 -0400 schrieb Denys Dmytriyenko:
>
>[…]
>
>> I agree with all Paul's comments, except the one requiring From and SoB fields 
>> to match - in some cases it's not possible, especially when people try to 
>> avoid inline patches being mangled by corporate mail servers...
>
>Easy enough. Just add
>
>From: Jeff Lance <j-lance1 at ti.com>
>
>to the beginning of the message and `git am` will take this for the
>author field.
>
>        $ git help am
>        […]
>                "From: " and "Subject: " lines starting the body override the
>               respective commit author name and title values taken from the headers.
>        […]
>
>I do not know where this can be configured, but it should be.
>
>
>Thanks,
>
>Paul
>
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