On Fri, 2011-01-28 at 13:05 +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:

On Friday 28 January 2011, Richard Cochran wrote:

quoted

I would like to get to the bottom of this. Here is what I did:

   1. Saved your patch to disk in mbox format using Mutt.
   2. git am
   3. ... rebase, rebase, rebase, ...
   4. git format-patch [options] 1234..abcd
   5. Edit cover letter
   6. for x in 00*; do mutt -H $x; done

Git format-patch places the "From: John Stultz [off-list ref]"
line with the other mail headers, and so I guess mutt just faithfully
preserves this.

I don't like having to remember to fix this manually. There must be a
better way...

The problem is step 6. The output of git format-patch does not work when
sending with mutt. The easiest solution is to send with git send-email,
which does the same as mutt -H, but gets it right.

I use: formail -s sendmail -t < patches.mbox, but then, I use quilt mail
to generate the mbox, not git.