Re: git-send-email is omitting author and date lines

martin f krafft [off-list ref] writes:

also sprach Johannes Schindelin [off-list ref] [2007.09.24.1210 +0100]:

quoted

And that is perfectly okay, since as far as the public is
concerned, this is the date of the patch.

If you say so. I don't find this at all convincing.

I think that is the reasoning for the current behaviour of
send-email, but it is not unreasonable to have an option to
always add in-body From: and Date: headers to send-email, with a
blessing from a recent post from Linus to the kernel mailing
list:

	http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/582450

Notice the part he says he appreciates Andrew's practice and
talks about message being further forwarded by somebody else.