format-patch: allow forcing the use of in-body From: header

Users may be authoring and committing their commits under the same
e-mail address they use to send their patches from, in which case
they shouldn't need to use the in-body From: line in their outgoing
e-mails.  At the receiving end, "git am" will use the address on the
"From:" header of the incoming e-mail and all should be well.

Some mailing lists, however, mangle the From: address from what the
original sender had; in such a situation, the user may want to add
the in-body "From:" header even for their own patches.

"git format-patch --[no-]force-in-body-from" was invented for such
users.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/pretty.c b/pretty.c
index cf418a6b20..b7553e3fe0 100644
--- a/pretty.c
+++ b/pretty.c
@@ -480,6 +480,8 @@ end:
 static int use_in_body_from(const struct pretty_print_context *pp,
 			    const struct ident_split *ident)
 {
+	if (pp->rev && pp->rev->force_in_body_from)
+		return 1;
 	if (ident_cmp(pp->from_ident, ident))
 		return 1;
 	return 0;