Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes:
>> ... What is most worrysome is the latter
>> half of the last sentence. Is it really "should not be", or is it
>> merely "use of this option is just a waste of time, as you would get
>> exactly the same result anyway"? If it is the latter, that is fine.
>
> It does what you want, and omits the in-body header when it would be
> redundant.
OK, then I would no longer be worried about that one.
> I think the original reason I did not make "--from" the default is that
> I was worried about breaking consumers which do not know how to handle
> in-body headers.
That's a fair concern.
So going back to Josh's original problem description:
While git-send-email knows how to change the patch mails to use your own
address as "From:" and add a "From:" line to the body for the author,
any other tool used to send emails doesn't do that.
I wonder how these "any other tool" (that reads the format-patch
output, i.e. mbox file with one mail per file each, and sends each
as a piece of e-mail, without paying attention who you, the tool's
user, are and blindly send them with the original "From:" and other
headers intact in the header part of the message) are used in the
wild to send patch submissions. /usr/bin/mail or /usr/bin/Mail
would not be among them, as I suspect they would place everything in
the body part, and the would do so without stripping the "From "
line that exists before each e-mail message.
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