On Fri, Sep 28, 2018 at 12:58:58AM -0400, Jeff King wrote:
> > From: Jeff King
>
> Pretty sure that isn't right. :)
Indeed that isn't right :-). I try my best to review my patches
diligently before submitting them, but here's an interesting side-story
if you're interested:
I use a script 'git
> From: Jeff King
Pretty sure that isn't right. :)
The preferred way to send a patch with a different author is to have
actual email be "From:" you, but then include a:
From: Jeff King
as the first line of the body (which git-am will then pick up).
git-send-email will do this for you
None of the current callers use the refname parameter we pass to their
callbacks. In theory somebody _could_ do so, but it's actually quite
weird if you think about it: it's a ref in somebody else's repository.
So the name has no meaning locally, and in fact there may be duplicates
if there are
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