Re: [RFC PATCH] format-patch: thread as reply to cover letter even with in-reply-to

From: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Date: Feb 16, 2009, 23:27 UTC
Message-ID: <200902170027.09406.trast@student.ethz.ch>
In-Reply-To: <m3bpt2t8a6.fsf@localhost.localdomain>

Jakub Narebski wrote:

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> Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch> writes:
> > Jay Soffian wrote:
> 
> > > I think this change may be okay, but I think to go with it the
> > > cover-letter and all the patches should have a "References:" header
> > > with the message-id given by --in-reply-to.
> > 
> > That's a completely separate issue.  I'm only proposing to change
> > what is formatted as a reply to what, the In-Reply-To and References
> > formatting is handled by the existing code.

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> patches had both '--in-reply-to' message id AND cover letter id in
> "References:" header.  That would make for safer threading...

Oh, now I see what you meant.

It seems that right now, send-email appends the right references for --thread mode, and format-patch only does the one-reference case. I'll try and make a patch for that.

-- 
Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch