On 3/16/22 21:21, Michael Opdenacker via lists.openembedded.org wrote: > Greetings, > > My patches sent to the mailing lists are causing trouble for Richard. > > The reason is the "From" field is modified by the mailing list server. It's > From: "Michael Opdenacker via lists.yoctoproject.org" > <michael.opdenacker=bootlin....@lists.yoctoproject.org> > instead of > From : Michael Opdenacker <michael.opdenac...@bootlin.com" > in my original patch. > > And then when you try to apply the patch with "git am", you get a > modified committer name. This makes it harder for Richard to apply > patches, otherwise you get commits such as: > https://git.yoctoproject.org/poky/log/?qt=author&q=via > > If I understood correctly, the problem happens because we had to enable > DMARC on our domain (bootlin.com), because of a storm of spam messages > claiming to come from our domain. Otherwise our legitimate e-mails were > getting blocked by Google Mail. > > Richard recalls that someone once found a workaround for this issue. Did > any of you ever face this?
The problem seems to originate from the behavior of "git am"... As its manual says (https://git-scm.com/docs/git-am): "The commit author name is taken from the "From: " line of the message" ... and there seems to be no way to override this behavior. Michael. -- Michael Opdenacker, Bootlin Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering https://bootlin.com
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