Re: [PATCH v3] git-send-email.perl: make initial In-Reply-To apply only to first email

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Nov 10, 2010, 19:48 UTC
Message-ID: <7v62w5hsd4.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20101110124522.0dff4076.ospite@studenti.unina.it>

Antonio Ospite <ospite@studenti.unina.it> writes:

> ... About the tests, I am going to modify one of your
> tests instead of adding another one, is that OK?

It is not just Ok but is preferred; that is a good way to document where the behaviour changed how, and for what reason ;-).

Perhaps an illustration in the documentation may help. Until I read what Matthieu wrote in his message, I didn't quite get why anybody wanted this new behaviour---my understanding of which is to get something like this:

    [PATCH 0/2] Here is what I did...
     [PATCH 1/2] Clean up and tests
     [PATCH 2/2] Implementation
     [PATCH v2 0/3] Here is a reroll
      [PATCH v2 1/3] Clean up
      [PATCH v2 2/3] New tests
      [PATCH v2 3/3] Implementation

when sending the re-rolled series, with the --in-reply-to for [v2 0/3] set to [0/2] of the original. If you illustrate the current behaviour in a similar way in your commit log message, perhaps side-by-side to save vertical space, it would help make it clear why people would want the new behaviour.