Re: git send-email woes

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Sam Ravnborg <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> The patches in quistion did not have a "Signed-off-by: tag so
> that mail address has been from the author instead.
> And this mail address was still invalid as per RFC2822.

I do not think it takes Signed-off-by: as author in any case
(and I do not think it should -- if it did so it is a bug).

Maybe something like this?

diff --git a/git-send-email.perl b/git-send-email.perl
index 746c525..b4a34f4 100755
--- a/git-send-email.perl
+++ b/git-send-email.perl
@@ -431,6 +431,11 @@ sub send_message
 	    $gitversion =~ s/^.* //;
 	}
 
+	my ($author_name) = ($from =~ /^(.*?)\s+</);
+	if ($author_name =~ /\./ && $author_name !~ /^".*"$/) {
+		my ($name, $addr) = ($from =~ /^(.*?)(\s+<.*)/);
+		$from = "\"$name\"$addr";
+	}
 	my $header = "From: $from
 To: $to
 Cc: $cc

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