Re: Getting email addresses obfuscated in patch attachments created by "git format-patch"

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> Date: Tue, 16 May 2023 22:17:06 +0200
> Cc: philipk@posteo.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> From: Jens Schmidt <jschmidt4gnu@vodafonemail.de>
> 
> On 2023-05-16  20:57, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> > I'm not sure you can conceal your email address in practice if you
> > contribute changes to Emacs (or to any other projects with a public
> > repository).  That's because anyone could see your email address by
> > just walking the commit logs.  And many projects, Emacs included, have
> > a special mailing list where each commit is automatically posted, with
> > all its information, so anyone accessing the archives of such a list
> > will also see the email addresses of the contributors, and crawlers
> > can pick them up.
> > 
> > Thus, I'm not sure why you should insist on obfuscating the email
> > address in just those patches, since it will be visible in other
> > places anyway.
> 
> Ah.  So even if I supply a patch to Emacs by email, and someone else 
> merges it, I will occur as commit author in git?

Yes.  We take correct attribution seriously, so you should always be
the Author of the commits that install changes written by you.