On Tue, Aug 30, 2022 at 04:07:18PM -0400, Jeff King wrote: > All that said, I don't care _too_ strongly about it. I do suspect the > feature might be better placed in send-email (or possibly in addition). > If you are using send-email, then I think you're not supposed to use > "--from" with format-patch at all, and you have no way of accessing this > feature. This "not supposed to" came from me looking at the documentation. But this discussion implies that it's maybe not that big a deal: https://lore.kernel.org/git/xmqq8twlqwan.fsf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/ Apparently we were considering enabling "--from" by default, but I don't think that ever happened. -Peff