Re: [PATCH 1/7] Make unpack_trees_options bit flags actual bitfields

[Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>]

On Sat, 22 Mar 2008, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> 
> Any point in doing the "From:" and "Date:" inside the mail body?

I encourage people to do that for the kernel ("From:" in particular), 
because while git-am will pick them up from the email headers, that is 
only true if the emails don't get passed around and commented upon by 
others.

Now, in git, the chain-of-command is very short (everybody -> Junio), so 
it really doesn't matter, but in the kernel, when people send out patches 
like this, the patches may be forwarded by others (who add their sign-off 
lines etc), and then it's really good to have that "From:" line in 
particular in the body of the email, because it's more likely that it will 
remain there (otherwise we depend on the person who signs off and forwards 
it to add it!)

			Linus