Re: Allow "git shortlog" to group by committer information

On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 5:51 PM, Stephen & Linda Smith <ischis2@cox.net> wrote:

I read email with the gmail web interface, which is wonderful because of the server-side searching etc. The only real downside is the weak threading, but you get used to it.

I personally find IMAP and POP to be a tool of the devil, and have never had a good experience with them as a mail interface. In theory IMAP is supposed to support server-side searches, in practice it never worked for me.

But the problem with sending patches using the web interface is that you cannot attach things inline without gmail screwing up whitespace.

I suggested to some googler that a "attach inline" checkbox in the would be a wonderful option for text attachments, but considering that the android gmail app still has no text-only option I don't think that suggestion went anywhere.

Oh, I can send inline stuff (as I just re-sent that patch), but then I have to fire up alpine and do it the old-fashioned way. So it's an extra step. So since I spend all my time at the gmail web interface _anyway_, the attachment model ends up being the slightly more convenient one.

And sure, I could use git-send-email as that extra step instead, but I'd rather just use alpine. That's the extra step I do for some other things (ie the "200-email patch-bomb from Andrew Morton" things - I'm not using the web interface for _that_).

                 Linus