> The advantage of pull requests is that author information can be > preserved more easily. Running git format-patch results in most > patches > having wrong SMTP sender information due to the assumption that the > patch author is the same person also submitting the patch. > So in practise, this would either require changing the From: (and > thus > Author) to myself or having most mails eaten by anti-spam measures > due > to non-matching SPF which prohibits my SMTP to send mail on behalf of > the original authors of the patches. > This is completely untrue. If the first line of the *body* of the email is "From: ..." then this is preserved as the author information by git am, and doing so is also the default in git format-patch/send-email when the author doesn't match the email configuration. johannes
