Putting the From: in the Signed-off-by block is a result of two thoughts:
1. putting it at the top makes the most sense from an email
perspective, but it often seem to get lost by various
patch-posting programs if it gets tangled in the Subject/summary
part of the patch. The result is that it needs to float in an odd
way:
Subject: wooble the foo
From: Foo Woobler <foo@wooble.com>
Wooble foos in the appropriate manner.
Signed-off-by: Foo Woobler <foo@wooble.com>
Cc: Bar Mangler <bar@mangle.org>
2. There's already a block of email addresses which describe how
people relate to this patch, so why not put From: there (since it
isn't really an email From header, but a patch metadata header).
I'd assumed that tools which pick "Thing: Email" pairs out of a
patch would deal with From in the same place as a Signed-off-by.
After all, tools deal with Cc:s there.
I'll make sure From: is in the right place in future, but I just wanted
to point out it wasn't complete randomness.
J
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