On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 12:24:48AM +0100, Jonathan del Strother wrote: > Is it possible to submit a patch to the mailing list, from an author > that isn't subscribed? Last time I submitted a patch I went via my Yes. The list accepts mail from non-subscribers. > throwaway email address, and so that was used as the commit author. > It looks like "git am" is always going to just use the email address > used to post to the mailing list as the email address, but I'm sure in > the past that my patches have appeared under my real email. Was that > just manual intervention by the maintainer? Yes, it pulls it from the From: header. However, you can override that by including From: Your Real Name <yourrealaddress> as the first line of the mail. git-send-email will do this for you automagically if the commit author and your email sending address are not the same. Look at some of your previous patches to the list; they have this line. -Peff -- 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
