Message-ID: <1484323199.8670.5.camel@sipsolutions.net> (sfid-20170113_170012_857224_60D008B8)
Subject: Re: [RFC] [PULL REQUEST] rt2x00 patches from OpenWrt.org
From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Daniel Golle <daniel@makrotopia.org>,
        Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, lede-dev@lists.infradead.org,
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        michel.stempin@wanadoo.fr, vasilugin@yandex.ru,
        Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>,
        Helmut Schaa <helmut.schaa@googlemail.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2017 16:59:59 +0100
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> The advantage of pull requests is that author information can be
> preserved more easily. Running git format-patch results in most
> patches
> having wrong SMTP sender information due to the assumption that the
> patch author is the same person also submitting the patch.
> So in practise, this would either require changing the From: (and
> thus
> Author) to myself or having most mails eaten by anti-spam measures
> due
> to non-matching SPF which prohibits my SMTP to send mail on behalf of
> the original authors of the patches.
> 

This is completely untrue. If the first line of the *body* of the email
is "From: ..." then this is preserved as the author information by git
am, and doing so is also the default in git format-patch/send-email
when the author doesn't match the email configuration.

johannes