Re: [PATCH RESEND] send-email: add 'specify-author' option

Felipe Contreras [off-list ref] writes:

On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 8:14 PM, Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] wrote:

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Felipe Contreras [off-list ref] writes:

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Some mail servers (Microsoft Exchange) mangle the 'From' header, so
while applying the patches, the author has to be fixed manually.

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I wouldn't say that the existing option names to send-email are great, but
I have to say that the one added by this is simply horrible ;-)

The first paragraph of the proposed commit log message states the problem
it tries to address very clearly, which is good, but is "From: " the only
thing that needs this?  I am wondering if this should be named and behave
more like "--duplicate-header" or "--in-body-header".

I have never seen any other 'in-body-header' other than From, and I
don't see how that would be useful. Anybody else?

The "Subject:" is very often used in the wild, when responding to an
existing discussion thread with a patch, without changing the topic of the
thread (I would say it is used more than "From: " override).

When using send-email to start a thread anew, this use case is much less
of a problem, but I wouldn't be surprised if a broken MSA/MTA mangled the
subject (especially imagine a non-ASCII ones) incorrectly which would be
helped with exactly the same in-body-header mechanism.

You probably meant "I do not want to hear from Junio" by your last
half-sentence, but I replied anyway ;-).