On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 10:48:19AM -0800, John Stultz wrote:

While I appreciate you preserving the path author, and the signoffs are
right, you really should send the email under your own name.

Guess I've been reading too much spam. It wore off on me.
 

The proper style is to keep the mail-header From: the same (ie: Richard
Cochran [off-list ref]), but as the first line of the mail
body put:
   From: Author Name [off-list ref]

Sorry about this. Arnd already explained this to me, and I did catch
it with V9. This time I forgot.

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...

Sorry,
Richard