On Thu, Sep 16, 2021 at 04:20:42PM +0000, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 16, 2021, David Edmondson wrote:
>
> For all these patches, assuming you want the Author credit to go to your @oracle.com
> email, they need an explicit
>
> From: David Edmondson <david.edmondson@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> otherwise git will default to the "From" email header and make the Author
> "David Edmondson <dme@xxxxxxx>". And then checkpatch will rightly complain that
> the SOB does not match the Author.
>
> Adding From: can be handled automatically by "git format-patch" via "--from", e.g.
>
> git format-patch --from="David Edmondson <dme@xxxxxxx>" ...
Or you can put
[user]
name = David Edmondson
email = david.edmondson@xxxxxxxxxx
in .git/config and then it'll use that as the author and you can send
from any random mail service using git send-email it'll slap the From:
correctly.
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