Hi Marek,
On Wed, Sep 19, 2018 at 11:28 AM Geert Uytterhoeven
<ge...@linux-m68k.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 19, 2018 at 11:22 AM Marek Vasut <marek.va...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 09/19/2018 11:13 AM, Simon Horman wrote:
> > > Marek, these days checkpatch complains if the author of the patch does not
> > > have a signed offline, and the inconsistency between your
> > > from and Sign-off the email address trips that check.
> > >
> > > Could you consider either a) enhancing checkpatch or b) using
>
> I'm the one who enhanced checkpatch with the new check ;-)
>
> > > the same address twice? No need to take any action for this patch.
> >
> > Sure, do you know if there's some tweak to git config , so git
> > send-email uses the m.v+foo@ From address ?
>
> Git send-email uses the address from user.email in gitconfig, just
> like git commit.
>
> However, I see you're using Gmail's SMTP server. That one replaces the
> From-line in the header by your primary email address as configured in Gmail
> (even if you have configured Gmail to know the other address is yours, too).
>
> I use my ISP's SMTP server to work around that.
Another trick that should work:
If you run git send-email in a repo with a different user.email
config, it should
add the original From to the email's body, as it will detect you're submitting
patches on behalf of "someone else".
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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