Provide a more meaningful initial "From " line when using --compose in git-send-email.

git-send-email, when used with --compose, provided the user with a mbox-format
file to edit.  Some users, however, were confused by the leading, blank, "From
" line, so this change puts the value that will appear on the From: line of the
actual email on this line, along with a note that the line is ignored.

Signed-off-by: Ryan Anderson <ryan@michonline.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>

diff --git a/git-send-email.perl b/git-send-email.perl
index ec1428d961206f12e195274aea6ea3ae52374898..51b7513b5ad4d2a4327f81bd22fb5f674b3a663d 100755 (executable)
--- a/git-send-email.perl
+++ b/git-send-email.perl
@@ -125,7 +125,7 @@
        # effort to have it be unique
        open(C,">",$compose_filename)
                or die "Failed to open for writing $compose_filename: $!";
-       print C "From \n";
+       print C "From $from # This line is ignored.\n";
        printf C "Subject: %s\n\n", $initial_subject;
        printf C <<EOT;
 GIT: Please enter your email below.