Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> writes: > If there is a From: header in the beginning of the mail body, it is > used as the Author instead of the From: header in the mail header. It > would make sense if there is a Date: header in the beginning of the > mail body, it should be used instead of Date: field in the mail header. Just like From:, Date: and Subject: are in-body headers that are accepted by deployed versions of "git am" (actually, "mailinfo").