From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Frans Klaver Date: Tue, 07 Jul 2015 06:40:08 +0000 Subject: Re: Clarification for the use of additional fields in the message body Message-Id: List-Id: References: <530CD2C4.4050903@users.sourceforge.net> <530CF8FF.8080600@users.sourceforge.net> <530DD06F.4090703@users.sourceforge.net> <5317A59D.4@users.sourceforge.net> <558EB32E.6090003@users.sourceforge.net> <558EB4DE.3080406@users.sourceforge.net> <20150707023103.GA22043@kroah.com> <559B6FF8.9010704@users.sourceforge.net> In-Reply-To: <559B6FF8.9010704@users.sourceforge.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: SF Markus Elfring Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , Chris Park , Dean Lee , Johnny Kim , Rachel Kim , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, Julia Lawall , kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, LKML On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 8:21 AM, SF Markus Elfring wrote: >>> From: Markus Elfring >>> Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2015 15:56:57 +0200 >> >> Why is this in the body of the email? > > Does the canonical patch format support to preserve > specific details about a shown commit by specification > of fields like "Date" and "From" in the message body? Using "From:" in the body can be used to provide your properly spelled name, or the name/e-mail of the actual author, if that happens not to be the sender. git-send-email will do that automagically for you. If "From:" is not specified in the message body, the e-mails sender will be used as author. The date, as far as I know, is ignored. It is the commit date, not the authoring date, and once your patch is applied by a maintainer (i.e. committed), the date gets reset anyway. No need to try and preserve it. Frans