Re: Mailman From header rewrite

[Kyle Meyer]

Kyle Meyer writes:

> Sarah Morgensen writes:
>
>> On Tuesday, January 5th, 2021 at 5:01 AM, Kyle Meyer <kyle@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 [...]

Git 2.38.0 gained support for this via a --force-in-body-from option and
the associated format.forceInBodyFrom config variable.

  https://lore.kernel.org/git/20220829213837.13849-1-gitster@pobox.com/