Re: [RFC] Stopping those fat "What's cooking in git.git" threads

From: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
Date: Jul 21, 2008, 05:27 UTC
Message-ID: <48841E28.9050903@op5.se>
In-Reply-To: <7vsku44679.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org> writes:
> 
>> So here is what I thought about: What about if everyone (except Junio,
>> of course) would change the subject _and_ remove the In-Reply-To: header
>> when replying to those mails?
>>
>> If those large threads just annoys a few people and most people are
>> happy with the current situation then sorry for the noise.
> 
> I could make "What's cooking" not a follow-up to the previous issue, or
> perhaps add "(volume 1.6.0, issue 28)" at the end of the Subject.
>

I would very much prefer that (both of them, really). Thunderbird's threading is not so advanced as mutt's, so I can't break threads so easily.

The most annoying part is that the timebased auto-delete from thunderbird means I get a new thread spawning in the middle of an old partially deleted one. It can be very confusing.

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