On Sun, Jan 28, 2018 at 03:56:57PM -0000, Philip Oakley wrote:
> Michal, you may want to hack up an option that can automatically create
> that format if it is of use. I sometimes find the sort order an issue in
> some of my mail clients.
If there is a From: header in the beginning of the mail body, it is
used as the Author instead of the From: header in the mail header. It
would make sense if there is a Date: header in the beginning of the
mail body, it should be used instead of Date: field in the mail header.
The problem is that if existing git clients don't support this, it
wouldn't be safe to start emmiting patches with that format for at
least a year or two until the prerequisite version of git gets wide
adoption. Alternatively, there could be a git option which causes
something like X-Git-Author-Date: to be set in the mail header.
- Ted
