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From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: git-send-email is omitting author and date lines
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 01:30:46 +0100 (BST)
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Hi,

On Mon, 24 Sep 2007, Hanspeter Kunz wrote:

> On Sun, 2007-09-23 at 16:29 -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> > Hanspeter Kunz <hp@edelkunz.ch> writes:
> > 
> > > When sending a patch to myself using `git-send-email` I realized that
> > > the lines containing the author and the date (lines 5 and 6 in the patch
> > > file) were not in the sent email.
> > 
> > Was the commit authored by yourself?
> 
> yes. does this make a difference?

Yes, it does.  The author is usually inferred from the sender of the mail, 
and therefore git-send-email strips that information from the message 
(IIRC).

Hth,
Dscho