On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 8:21 AM, SF Markus Elfring <elfring@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> From: Markus Elfring <elfring@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >>> Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2015 15:56:57 +0200 >> >> Why is this in the body of the email? > > Does the canonical patch format support to preserve > specific details about a shown commit by specification > of fields like "Date" and "From" in the message body? Using "From:" in the body can be used to provide your properly spelled name, or the name/e-mail of the actual author, if that happens not to be the sender. git-send-email will do that automagically for you. If "From:" is not specified in the message body, the e-mails sender will be used as author. The date, as far as I know, is ignored. It is the commit date, not the authoring date, and once your patch is applied by a maintainer (i.e. committed), the date gets reset anyway. No need to try and preserve it. Frans -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
