Users may be authoring and committing their commits under the same e-mail address they use to send their patches from, in which case they shouldn't need to use the in-body From: line in their outgoing e-mails. At the receiving end, "git am" will use the address on the "From:" header of the incoming e-mail and all should be well. Some mailing lists, however, mangle the From: address from what the original sender had; in such an unfortunate situation, the user may want to add the in-body "From:" header even for their own patch. A new option `--force-in-body-from` from the command line of `git format-patch`, and a new configuration variable `format.forceInBodyFrom` that can be set per repository, are added to address this. Changes since the original submission are * The configuration variable support is new. * comes with documentation updates. * "in-body" is spelled as such, not "inbody". * the order of config and option parsing plus initializing the rev_info structure dictates a separate variable to be used for the former two and then copied to rev_info later. Junio C Hamano (3): pretty: separate out the logic to decide the use of in-body from format-patch: allow forcing the use of in-body From: header format-patch: learn format.forceInBodyFrom configuration variable Documentation/config/format.txt | 4 ++++ Documentation/git-format-patch.txt | 11 +++++++++ builtin/log.c | 9 ++++++++ pretty.c | 12 +++++++++- revision.h | 1 + t/t4014-format-patch.sh | 37 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 6 files changed, 73 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) -- 2.37.2-621-gd3a800faf0
