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

Michael Witten [off-list ref] writes:

I sometimes like to set an explicit in-body `Date' header. However, Junio
has disagreed vocally about this practice:

  Subject: Dates in Commits and other issues of style
           (Re: [RFC 2/5] Pretty Print: show tz when using DATE_LOCAL)
  Message-ID: [ref]
  http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/171936

I do not want to see that used for patches meant for me to pick up from
mbox; the reason is explained in the message the cited one is in response
to.

It is an entirely different matter if such a "feature" should or should
not exist in the tool.  I do not think I would use it myself, and as I
said, I do not want anybody to use it when sending patches to this list,
but that does not mean Git should not support it.