Re: [PATCH v3 1/4] completion: be nicer with zsh

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Feb 3, 2012, 20:28 UTC
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In-Reply-To: <CAMP44s0Fq_BGwcmDM5E1kWNiyoJw6e6Hr=8XaNF6tmQAcdnUmw@mail.gmail.com>

Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> writes:

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> On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 2:17 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> ...
>> Here is what I ended up in preparation for queuing the series. I still
>> haven't seen any version of 4/4, but please check $gmane/189683 and see if
>> that matches what you intended. Also I am assuming $gmane/189606 relayed
>> by Jonathan is a squash between your 2 and 3 (which didn't reach me), so
>> please advise if that does not match what you want to have.
>
> This is getting ridiculous, now I sent the patches directly to you, is
> your pobox.com server also silently dropping them for no reason?

Do not blame pobox.com; they have nothing to do with the corruption of your headers.

The volume of messages on the git mailing list I read on gmane's nntp interface is much larger than that of my personal git-mail mailbox. Patches and ideas in their early rounds do not come to my personal git-mail mailbox (because I asked people not to cc: me such messages unless I am an area expert, and they have been good to me), but I try to point people not to go in a wrong direction as early as possible to avoid wasting time for contributors and reviewers when I can.

So I almost always am on the mailing list "newsgroup" when dealing with git related mail traffic (which is not 100% of my git time to begin with), and only after I ran out of messages to process I check my personal git-mail mailbox "newsgroup". I usually only find "help me" messages and questions that are addressed directly to me in private, and my standard response to them is to ask the sender to conduct the business in public on the list instead. In other words, my personal git-mail mailbox "newsgroup" is primariliy a back-up mailbox for my purpose. I do not even run fetchmail that often to poll it, because the latency for it is large due to the way I work (described above).

You just caught me at the wrong moment when there were much more important messages on the list (more refers to the volume, not all of them are more important) and I was working on them (not limited to your issue) from top to bottom in the mailing list "newsgroup". I however wanted to get the zsh issue resolved sooner, and because you seemed to have been having so much trouble with your MUA (I only so 0/4 even for v4), I tried to help out by sending what I thought is already good, hoping that a message that only has to say "that looks good, thanks" would be easier to make it to the list.

All that happened before I got to the back-up git mailbox where you sent the rest of your v4.

People say "Oops, our mails crossed." and go on without making too much fuss about it. E-mail communications are asynchronous. Get used to it.

I think your mail breakage, from looking at your mail header, is this:

  From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
  To: git@vger.kernel.org
  Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>, SZEDER Gábor <szeder@ira.uka.de>, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>, Thomas Rast <trast@inf.ethz.ch>, Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>, "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>>
  Subject: [PATCH v4 1/4] completion: work around zsh option propagation bug

Notice the excess '>' after the last address on Cc:?

It's not like this is your first serious submission to the list, so it is curious why only this time you have been having so much trouble. Perhaps you have changed your mail set-up lately?