From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2011 17:12:46 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] send-mail: Add option to sleep between sending each email.
Message-ID: <7vbouvx8j5.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <vpq7h5jtngj.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>

Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr> writes:

> There have been discussion (and IIRC a patch) proposing this already in
> the past. One advantage of sleeping a bit between each email is that it
> increase the chances for the receiver to receive the emails in the right
> order.

Huh? Even in the presense of MTAs in the middle that are free to reorder
messages?

IIRC, "git send-email" does its best to force ordering by assigning
monotonically increasing timestamps on the Date: field, so that the
recipients can sort the messages based on it, in addition to the
In-Reply-To field to help threading. I personally do not think there is
anything more than that that should done in the program.