Re: Getting email addresses obfuscated in patch attachments created by "git format-patch"

[Philip Kaludercic]

Jens Schmidt <jschmidt4gnu@vodafonemail.de> writes:

> Emacs contribution policy recommends to attach patches created by "git
> format-patch".  It seems that the email address contained in such
> patches is *not* automatically stripped by mailman or whatever
> presents the mailing list archives of emacs-devel or bug-gnu-emacs.
>
> Fiddling with "--from" to "git format-patch" does not seem to help, either.
>
> OTOH, I have seen some patches like Paul's in this message:
>
>   https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2016-01/msg01807.html
>
> where his email address is "obfuscated" to
>
>   Paul Eggert <address@hidden>
>
> What causes this obfuscation?  How to configure that?  Manual
> post-processing of the patch with sed?

This problem doesn't appear with recent patches, perhaps something was
misconfigured in 2016?

> If it matters, I'd prefer to use Thunderbird to contribute patches ...

I think that should still be possible.  I use Gnus or `vc-prepare-patch'
and frequently just attach patches without any issues.

> Thanks
>
> Jens