On Fri, May 04, 2012 at 12:20:34PM +0200, Nelson Benitez Leon wrote: > On 05/04/2012 09:24 AM, Jeff King wrote: > > On Thu, May 03, 2012 at 06:40:28PM +0200, Nelson Benitez Leon wrote: > > > >> [snip] > >> > >> Now we retry as long as we keep receiving HTTP_REAUTH, so the previous > >> sequence correctly completes. > >> > >> Patch by Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> > > > > We usually spell that as: > > > > From: Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> > > > > at the beginning of the email body (which lets am set the author > > appropriately). > > Are you saying the first line of the email body? isn't that for the > commit message first-line? I suppose you're not refering to the 'from > field' of the email as I would need alter identities in my email client > and found that cumbersome. Sorry for me not getting it and asking for > clarification. Yes, that's what I am saying. When Junio applies the patch using "git am", git will recognize these extra "pseudo-headers" at the top of the body, remove them from the commit message, and override the email headers with them. It does this for exactly this case; you can leave your email headers intact, but still provide attribution to someone else. -Peff -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html