Re: [PATCH V10 01/15] time: Introduce timekeeping_inject_offset

From: Arnd Bergmann
Date: Fri Jan 28 2011 - 07:05:48 EST


On Friday 28 January 2011, Richard Cochran wrote:
> I would like to get to the bottom of this. Here is what I did:
>
> 1. Saved your patch to disk in mbox format using Mutt.
> 2. git am
> 3. ... rebase, rebase, rebase, ...
> 4. git format-patch [options] 1234..abcd
> 5. Edit cover letter
> 6. for x in 00*; do mutt -H $x; done
>
> Git format-patch places the "From: John Stultz <john.stultz@xxxxxxxxxx>"
> line with the other mail headers, and so I guess mutt just faithfully
> preserves this.
>
> I don't like having to remember to fix this manually. There must be a
> better way...

The problem is step 6. The output of git format-patch does not work when
sending with mutt. The easiest solution is to send with git send-email,
which does the same as mutt -H, but gets it right.

Arnd
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