Sarah Morgensen writes: > On Tuesday, January 5th, 2021 at 5:01 AM, Kyle Meyer <k...@kyleam.com> wrote: > >> add the appropriate "From:" header to the body of each patch. `git am` >> will take the in-body header over the actual header. > > I wonder if there is a way to automate the duplication of the "From" > header into the body of the patch?
I'm not aware of an existing way at the git level. Here's the only discussion I found about it on the git list: https://lore.kernel.org/git/305577c2-709a-b632-4056-658277117...@redhat.com/T/#u As a hacky/ugly way, for those that are okay tweaking the way their names ends up on the mailing list, they can adjust `send-email --from=` (or sendemail.from) slightly so that it doesn't match user.name/user.email, and then send-email should take care of adding an in-body header for user.name/user.email. Another option is of course to feed the patches to a custom post-processing script that adds the in-body "From:", where the details would depend a bit on the person's patch workflow. Or, moving that work a bit upstream, I think it'd be fairly straightforward to wire up a prepare-commit-msg hook that would insert an in-body "From:" (after checking some things, like whether the commit is being amended). I guess the main disadvantage of handling it at this spot is the risk of commits with in-body "From:" headers unintentionally being merged/pushed directly to the main line (given the person has commit access).
