send-email: Identify author at the top when sending e-mail

git-send-email did not check if the sender is the same as the
patch author.  Follow the "From: at the beginning" convention to
propagate the patch author correctly.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>

diff --git a/git-send-email.perl b/git-send-email.perl
index 7c8d512..b220d11 100755 (executable)
--- a/git-send-email.perl
+++ b/git-send-email.perl
@@ -307,6 +307,7 @@ $subject = $initial_subject;
 foreach my $t (@files) {
        open(F,"<",$t) or die "can't open file $t";
 
+       my $author_not_sender = undef;
        @cc = @initial_cc;
        my $found_mbox = 0;
        my $header_done = 0;
@@ -321,7 +322,12 @@ foreach my $t (@files) {
                                        $subject = $1;
 
                                } elsif (/^(Cc|From):\s+(.*)$/) {
-                                       next if ($2 eq $from && $suppress_from);
+                                       if ($2 eq $from) {
+                                               next if ($suppress_from);
+                                       }
+                                       else {
+                                               $author_not_sender = $2;
+                                       }
                                        printf("(mbox) Adding cc: %s from line '%s'\n",
                                                $2, $_) unless $quiet;
                                        push @cc, $2;
@@ -360,6 +366,9 @@ foreach my $t (@files) {
                }
        }
        close F;
+       if (defined $author_not_sender) {
+               $message = "From: $author_not_sender\n\n$message";
+       }
 
        $cc = join(", ", unique_email_list(@cc));