Re: send-email sending shallow threads by default

From: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
Date: Feb 17, 2009, 08:34 UTC
Message-ID: <499A769B.2080308@op5.se>
In-Reply-To: <mj+md-20090216.103512.5791.nikam@ucw.cz>

Martin Mares wrote:

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> Hello, world!\n
> 
>> Is that the case? mutt at least orders by thread, but by rfc822 date
>> within a single level of thread. So as long as the date fields (set by
>> the sender) are correct, it looks right no matter what order they arrive in.
> 
> Actually, it matters, because the Date field has limited precision
> and it frequently happens that the sender produces several mails
> within a single second.
>

There's no need to have the date field be set to the time the mails were actually sent though. AFAIR, they get the AUTHOR_DATE now, and I doubt more than one commit can be authored every second.

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