On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 12:28:38PM +0200, Stephan Bergmann wrote:
> On 06/10/2016 12:09 PM, Eric Engestrom wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 09, 2016 at 05:13:20PM +0200, Stephan Bergmann wrote:
> > 
> > Since you didn't send this patch from your primary email account,
> > you might want to add this line here, otherwise the author will be
> > "stephan.bergmann.second...@googlemail.com":
> > 
> > From: Stephan Bergmann <sberg...@redhat.com>
> 
> Add that line where exactly?

At the top, above the commit message. Using `git send-email` on the
patch you originally sent does it automatically (I just double-checked).

> 
> (Seriously, this starts to get boring to me.  I had a rather trivial
> drive-by patch.  I got asked to provide it as exactly "git send-email" (a
> "git format-patch"'ed attachment apparently didn't suit reviewers, for
> whatever reasons),

Inline patches allow for inline comments, which most reviewers prefer.
It also makes the use of git-am much easier, when someone wants to test
your patch, or when a maintainer wants to apply and push your patch.

> so I dutifully set up "git send-email" (which I never use
> otherwise).  It didn't work with my primary SMTP server (which I didn't
> bother to investigate into further), so I used another one that happened to
> work.  I don't really care with what attribution that change would be
> merged.)

I didn't mean to bother. If you don't care what email address gets
attached to your name, feel free to ignore this :)

Cheers,
  Eric
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