From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 03:26:07 GMT
Subject: Re: send-email sending shallow threads by default
Message-ID: <20090220032607.GE22419@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <m1bpsxq074.fsf@fess.ebiederm.org>

On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 07:03:27PM -0800, Eric W. Biederman wrote:

> > send-email does write a new date header. Which is actually desirable,
> > IMHO, because otherwise rebased patches would get sent with their
> > original date, which might very well long in the past (and not only is
> > that confusing, but it would probably trip spam filters).
> 
> Can we ensure that all of the messages sent differ in date by 1 second?
> Keeping them in order for anyone who looks at the transmit date.

I think it already does:

  $ git show a5370b16
  commit a5370b16c34993c1d0f65171d5704244901e005b
  Author: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
  Date:   Sat Mar 25 03:01:01 2006 -0800

      send-email: try to order messages in email clients more correctly

      If --no-chain-reply-to is set, patches may not always be ordered
      correctly in email clients.  This patch makes sure each email
      sent from a different second.

-Peff