From: "Karl Hasselström" <kha@treskal.com>
To: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>
Cc: Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: Importing patches from email, which address?
Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2008 11:09:59 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080804090959.GA9425@diana.vm.bytemark.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9e4733910807280959h19039402kc14bfa1a3b653846@mail.gmail.com>
On 2008-07-28 12:59:24 -0400, Jon Smirl wrote:
> When working with the list of author emails for the kernel, I
> noticed that a lot of the author's email address are from internal
> mail servers. How is the handled in git (stgit, etc..)? Is the
> import using the email From:, would it be better to use Reply-to:?
I believe all relevant tools use the From: header (unless it's
overridden by a From: in the message body). I think this is how Linus
originally wanted it to work -- in the first linux-kernel commit his
e-mail is torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org, and I seem to recall him saying
something along the lines of this being a feature: others could see
which machine he commited on, and the e-mail should really be
considered more of a unique identifier than an actual real e-mail
address.
Not sure if the policy has changed since then, though.
--
Karl Hasselström, kha@treskal.com
www.treskal.com/kalle
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2008-07-28 16:59 Importing patches from email, which address? Jon Smirl
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