Re: [PATCH 2/2] Don't require config file for "stg mail"

From: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@gmail.com>
Date: 2006-11-30 19:32:08
On 29/11/06, Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-11-29 at 16:29 +0000, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> > Your patch uses the author of the patch which can be different from
> > the person sending the e-mail. It could indeed use the author from GIT
> > variables or configuration (not the patch author) and I already have a
> > patch from Karl Hasselström for this (which I haven't found the time
> > to check properly).
>
> The funny thing it, GIT_AUTHOR_NAME and GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL are only used
> in the code to determine the author of the patch.

Yes, but only for a newly created patch. If you import a patch from an
mbox or e-mail or simply pass the --author option to "new", the author
will be different.

-- 
Catalin
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