$committer is already extracted from the latest existing rev, so add the corresponding From: line to the email header. Signed-off-by: Gerrit Pape <pape@xxxxxxxxxxx> --- contrib/hooks/post-receive-email | 1 + 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/contrib/hooks/post-receive-email b/contrib/hooks/post-receive-email index 3904c18..c73f2d5 100644 --- a/contrib/hooks/post-receive-email +++ b/contrib/hooks/post-receive-email @@ -189,6 +189,7 @@ generate_email_header() # --- Email (all stdout will be the email) # Generate header cat <<-EOF + From: $committer To: $recipients Subject: ${emailprefix}$projectdesc $refname_type, $short_refname, ${change_type}d. $describe X-Git-Refname: $refname -- 1.5.3.5 - 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