linux-kernel - Re: Clarification for the use of additional fields in the message body

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Date:	Tue, 7 Jul 2015 08:40:08 +0200
From:	Frans Klaver <fransklaver@...il.com>
To:	SF Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
Cc:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Chris Park <chris.park@...el.com>,
	Dean Lee <dean.lee@...el.com>,
	Johnny Kim <johnny.kim@...el.com>,
	Rachel Kim <rachel.kim@...el.com>,
	linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, devel@...verdev.osuosl.org,
	Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...6.fr>,
	kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Clarification for the use of additional fields in the message body

On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 8:21 AM, SF Markus Elfring
<elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net> wrote:
>>> From: Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
>>> Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2015 15:56:57 +0200
>>
>> Why is this in the body of the email?
>
> Does the canonical patch format support to preserve
> specific details about a shown commit by specification
> of fields like "Date" and "From" in the message body?

Using "From:" in the body can be used to provide your properly spelled
name, or the name/e-mail of the actual author, if that happens not to
be the sender. git-send-email will do that automagically for you. If
"From:" is not specified in the message body, the e-mails sender will
be used as author.

The date, as far as I know, is ignored. It is the commit date, not the
authoring date, and once your patch is applied by a maintainer (i.e.
committed), the date gets reset anyway. No need to try and preserve
it.

Frans
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