Re: [RFC PATCHv2 1/2] am: add gitk patch format

Chris Packham [off-list ref] writes:

So teaching git mailinfo to do s/^    // (either when asked to or
using some heuristic) would be a better approach? I also think we
should accept "Author:" as an acceptable fallback if "From:" is not
present.

Not as "a fallback" in the sense that "Author:" should not be
treated any specially when "am" (which stands for "apply mail") is
operating on the patches in e-mails.  Whatever wants to convert the
output from "log --pretty" as if it came from "log --pretty=email"
would certainly need to flip "Author:" to "From:" (what should
happen when it sees "From:" in the input, though???), and whatgver
wannts to pick metainfo from "log --pretty" output like mailinfo
does for "log --pretty=email" output would certainly need to pick
the authorship from "Author:" (without paying any attention to
"From:" if one exists).