From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Karl =?iso-8859-1?Q?Hasselstr=F6m?= Subject: Re: Importing patches from email, which address? Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2008 11:09:59 +0200 Message-ID: <20080804090959.GA9425@diana.vm.bytemark.co.uk> References: <9e4733910807280959h19039402kc14bfa1a3b653846@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Git Mailing List , Linus Torvalds To: Jon Smirl X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Aug 04 10:49:02 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KPvkQ-0002Bb-TY for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Mon, 04 Aug 2008 10:48:59 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752317AbYHDIr5 convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Aug 2008 04:47:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752170AbYHDIr4 (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Aug 2008 04:47:56 -0400 Received: from diana.vm.bytemark.co.uk ([80.68.90.142]:2342 "EHLO diana.vm.bytemark.co.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751890AbYHDIr4 (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Aug 2008 04:47:56 -0400 Received: from kha by diana.vm.bytemark.co.uk with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1KPw4m-0002Za-00; Mon, 04 Aug 2008 10:10:00 +0100 Mail-Followup-To: Jon Smirl , Git Mailing List , Linus Torvalds Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <9e4733910807280959h19039402kc14bfa1a3b653846@mail.gmail.com> X-Manual-Spam-Check: kha@treskal.com, clean User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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. --=20 Karl Hasselstr=F6m, kha@treskal.com www.treskal.com/kalle