On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 12:36 AM, Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. Ah. I was getting mail rejected when I was trying to use my real email address, but now I look more closely, they're rejected because I was sending via a local postfix server & it didn't recognise the hostname. Doh... >> 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. > I assumed that I was confusing git-send-email with my multiple email addresses and that was a broken header. git-am will work fine with that second From: line being embedded in the commit message, then? -- 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
