[PATCH v7 0/2] modify Signed-off-by field

Paul Menzel pmenzel at molgen.mpg.de
Tue Apr 30 03:21:45 PDT 2024


Dear Chia,


Thank you for your reply. I am sorry, this causes so much trouble.


Am 30.04.24 um 12:04 schrieb Chia Li Hung:
> Paul Menzel 於 2024年4月30日 週二 下午2:48寫道:

>> Am 30.04.24 um 06:58 schrieb Kelly Hung:
>>> For the warning message:
>>> From: Kelly Hung '<ppighouse at gmail.com>' != 'Signed-off-by: Kelly Hung <Kelly_Hung at asus.com>'
>>>
>>> I replaced Kelly_Hung at asus.com with my private Gmail account.
>>>
>>> Due to a security issue with ASUS's mail server, I am unable to use
>>> ASUS's mail system to send patches out from my build server.
>>> So I executed git send-email using my private gmail account.
>>
>> To put light on ASUS’ upstream work, using your company address would be
>> nice in my opinion. Do you have it configured everything in git
>> (`~/.gitconfig`)?
>>
>>       git config --global user.name "Kelly Hung"
>>       git config --global user.email Kelly_Hung at asus.com

> Below is my git configuration.
> [user]
>          name = Kelly Hung
>          email = Kelly_Hung at asus.com
> [sendemail]
>          smtpserver = smtp.gmail.com
>          smtpEncryption = tls
>          smtpUser = ppighouse at gmail.com
>          smtpServerPort = 587
> 
> I made sure the "From" value after executing git format-patch was my ASUS
> email address.
> 
> From: Kelly Hung <Kelly_Hung at asus.com>
> Date: Thu, 29 Feb 2024 16:45:02 +0800
> Subject: [PATCH v7 1/2] dt-bindings: arm: aspeed: add ASUS X4TF board
> 
> Since my smtp server is Gmail, when I run send-gmail it replaces my "From"
> value with the Gmail account. I asked ASUS IT for assistance today and
> tried to get an SMTP acount.

*A thing you should know if you are using multiple email accounts with 
`git send-email`* [1] says to use

     git send-email --from ppighouse at gmail.com 000*.patch


Kind regards,

Paul


[1]: https://sjp38.github.io/post/git_send_email_multiple_email_caution/



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