Re: [edk2-devel] Updates to .mailmap needed for Jeff Brasen, Jake Garver, Joey Vagades and Michael Roth?

["Michael Brown" <mcb30@ipxe.org>]

On 09/01/2024 12:13, Laszlo Ersek wrote:
> On 1/9/24 11:45, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
>> Note that git am does support a 'From: ' header as the first line of
>> the commit log, and will use it correctly to supersede the From:
>> header in the SMTP envelope.
> 
> OTOH, that doesn't help in this case, IIUC. When the poster originally
> formats and sends the patch, their gitconfig says
> user.email=foobar@example.com, and the author meta-datum on the patch
> most likely *also* says foobar@example.com. (I.e., they are formatting a
> patch they have authored themselves.) Therefore
> git-format-patch/git-send-email have no reason to include an explicit
> "From:" line at the top of the commit message body. I agree that
> "From:", if present, mitigates the issue, but in most cases, I reckon,
> it's not present.

Is there a way to configure git to force git-format-patch to 
unconditionally include the inline "From:" header?  I tried:

   git config format.forceInBodyFrom true

which is described in the man page as "may help if the mailing list 
software mangles the sender’s identity", but it seems to have an effect 
only if "--from" is also specified.

Thanks,

Michael



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