Re: [PATCH v8 0/4] FPGA Manager Framework

From: Konrad Zapalowicz
Date: Sun Jan 11 2015 - 15:58:14 EST


On 01/11, Pavel Machek wrote:
> On Sun 2015-01-11 17:24:26, Konrad Zapalowicz wrote:
> > On 01/11, atull wrote:
> > > On Sat, 10 Jan 2015, Konrad Zapalowicz wrote:
> > >
> > > > On 01/06, atull@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > > > > From: Alan Tull <atull@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > >
> > > > Alan, there is something wrong with your email client configuration
> > > > and you need to fix.
> > > >
> > > > thanks,
> > > > konrad
> > >
> > > Hi Konrad,
> > >
> > > Can you be more specific? What problem are you seeing? Is it a problem
> > > with the original patch post or when I reply? When I a post, I'm using
> > > 'git send-email' with sendmail and when I am replying, I am using alpine.
> >
> > I think that because you email client configuration sets the 'From'
> > header to "atull@..." and at the same time you sign-off messages with
> > "Alan Tull atull@..." the "From" is added at the beginning of the
> > message to indicate the original author.
> >
> > This should be fixed as the "from" is not welcomed in the body of the
> > commit message.
>
> Actually, why not? Tools should know to look at From: in the
> commit. AFAICT, Alan has it set up correctly.

I think he has not. I suspect that the sendmail configuration in the git
config might be wrong. The 'from' must contain the same data as the git
is configured for the user.name and user.email options. Otherwise the
send-email is adding the "From: ..." to the message body.

cheers,
konrad

> Pavel
>
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