From: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2011 05:34:44 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] send-mail: Add option to sleep between sending each email.
Message-ID: <CALkWK0=CT_vsWZ6K_DhrL8rNcCEK-Hr9E_t3pgVdhkss4Oi0yg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vbouvx8j5.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Hi,

Michael Witten writes:
> [...]
> From a quick glance, my patch would appear to have become more advanced,
> as per your own request, Junio:
>
>  Message-ID: <7vskkh1va5.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
>  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/116083

Wow, that was over two years ago.  I only started contributing to Git
a little over a year and a half ago: no wonder I missed the
discussion.  Thanks for digging it out.

Junio C Hamano writes:
> [...]
> 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.

I agree with Junio here.  However, I realize that the patch adds some
value: perhaps we can have it as a script under 'contrib/'?

Thanks.

-- Ram