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From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
Cc: "'Michal Suchánek'" <msuchanek@suse.de>,
	git@vger.kernel.org,
	"'brian m. carlson'" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Subject: Re: git send-email sets date
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2018 17:12:31 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180128221231.GB13621@thunk.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <001601d39850$a0a48ae0$e1eda0a0$@iee.org>

On Sun, Jan 28, 2018 at 03:56:57PM -0000, Philip Oakley wrote:
> Michal, you may want to hack up an option that can automatically create 
> that format if it is of use. I sometimes find the sort order an issue in 
> some of my mail clients.

If there is a From: header in the beginning of the mail body, it is
used as the Author instead of the From: header in the mail header.  It
would make sense if there is a Date: header in the beginning of the
mail body, it should be used instead of Date: field in the mail header.

The problem is that if existing git clients don't support this, it
wouldn't be safe to start emmiting patches with that format for at
least a year or two until the prerequisite version of git gets wide
adoption.  Alternatively, there could be a git option which causes
something like X-Git-Author-Date: to be set in the mail header.

	       			  	   	- Ted

  reply	other threads:[~2018-01-28 22:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-01-26 17:32 git send-email sets date Michal Suchánek
2018-01-28 15:15 ` brian m. carlson
2018-01-28 15:56   ` Philip Oakley
2018-01-28 22:12     ` Theodore Ts'o [this message]
2018-01-30 20:41       ` Junio C Hamano
2018-01-28 22:32 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-01-29 12:48   ` Eric Wong
2018-01-30 20:37 ` Junio C Hamano

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