On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 04:59:59PM +0100, Johannes Berg wrote: > > > 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. Thanks for the clarification, I'll then submit the patches via git format-patch. Cheers Daniel
