Re: [PATCH 1/3] git-format-patch: Make the second and subsequent mails replies to the first

From: Josh Triplett <josht@us.ibm.com>
Date: Jul 14, 2006, 17:16 UTC
Message-ID: <1152897407.5177.8.camel@josh-work.beaverton.ibm.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vwtal9lu1.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Mon, 2006-07-10 at 14:44 -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> Josh Triplett <josht@us.ibm.com> writes:
> 
> > Add message_id and ref_message_id fields to struct rev_info, used in show_log
> > with CMIT_FMT_EMAIL to set Message-Id and In-Reply-To/References respectively.
> > Use these in git-format-patch to make the second and subsequent patch mails
> > replies to the first patch mail.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <josh@freedesktop.org>
> > ---
> > Resend of previous patch as part of new patch series.
> 
> While I understand what you said about imap-send, I really would
> feel better if this was optional.  Do not change the default
> output format, please.

So rather than the --no-thread option provided in the second patch of this series, you'd prefer a --thread option to enable setting the In-Reply-To/References headers?

Note that I based the direction of the --no-thread switch on git-send-email's inclusion of these headers by default with no way to turn them off, figuring that having an option to do so gave it an advantage over git-send-email while remaining consistent with it. I also figured that most people would not mess with the defaults, and thus the default should make a patch series more readable on mailing lists.

- Josh Triplett