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

[Jens Schmidt]

On 2023-05-16  20:57, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> I'm not sure you can conceal your email address in practice if you
> contribute changes to Emacs (or to any other projects with a public
> repository).  That's because anyone could see your email address by
> just walking the commit logs.  And many projects, Emacs included, have
> a special mailing list where each commit is automatically posted, with
> all its information, so anyone accessing the archives of such a list
> will also see the email addresses of the contributors, and crawlers
> can pick them up.
>
> Thus, I'm not sure why you should insist on obfuscating the email
> address in just those patches, since it will be visible in other
> places anyway.

Ah.  So even if I supply a patch to Emacs by email, and someone else 
merges it, I will occur as commit author in git?  Fine with me, and then 
there is really no point in concealing the email address in the patch.