On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 05:56:03PM -0400, Jeff King wrote: > Another way to think about it is that "--from" is a no-brainer when you > really are going to email the patches (and that's why it is has always > been the default behavior in git-send-email). But if you _aren't_ going > to mail the patches, retaining the original headers is more convenient. > It's not clear to me how many non-mail users of format-patch there are > (certainly rebase is one of them, but because it uses "am" on the > receiving side, I think everything should Just Work). I've seen various people use git format-patch to produce a patch file to email around, or a patch file to commit to a patches directory in a distribution package. I don't think any such tools would work incorrectly with the --from output, though for purely aesthetic reasons, I can imagine not wanting to include your own email address when not sending the patch by email. -- 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