mricon / b4

Tool to help with email-based patch workflows
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ez: Add support for a from field detection mechanism to overwrite authoship #23

Closed kmaincent closed 2 months ago

kmaincent commented 5 months ago

Implement management of the From tag in the cover letter. If present, all patches will have their commit messages prepended with it.

One use case is to include info of a company funding or sponsoring a development in the author line, as requested by Jakub Kicinski: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240215105846.6dd48886@kernel.org/