On 04/06/2016 12:00 PM, Mattias Andrée wrote: >> You may want to check >> that your top-level ~/.gitconfig has these settings: >> >> [user] >> name = "Full Name" >> email = [email protected] >> [sendemail] >> from = Full Name <[email protected]> >> >> so that 'git send-email' won't be forced to assume >> authorship is different than mail sender. >> > > That fixed the problem. Thanks. > > Feels a bit pedantic that you have too specify > the from value completely. One would think that > it could figure it out.
The user.name and user.email are mandatory; they determine git authorship. I think the sendemail.from is optional, but if omitted, it then uses your outgoing mailer's defaults (and not all outgoing mailers have sane defaults). So I've always provided it myself, rather than worrying about how to (re-)configure my SMTP connection to provide a default From: that matches my wishes. The other reason sendemail.from is important is that sometimes you send someone else's patch, where the mail is from you but the authorship From: line must be listed; so git _can't_ always use the authorship information in generating the email envelope. -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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