On Friday 28 January 2011, Richard Cochran wrote: > I would like to get to the bottom of this. Here is what I did: > > 1. Saved your patch to disk in mbox format using Mutt. > 2. git am > 3. ... rebase, rebase, rebase, ... > 4. git format-patch [options] 1234..abcd > 5. Edit cover letter > 6. for x in 00*; do mutt -H $x; done > > Git format-patch places the "From: John Stultz <john.stultz@xxxxxxxxxx>" > line with the other mail headers, and so I guess mutt just faithfully > preserves this. > > I don't like having to remember to fix this manually. There must be a > better way... The problem is step 6. The output of git format-patch does not work when sending with mutt. The easiest solution is to send with git send-email, which does the same as mutt -H, but gets it right. Arnd -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
