From: Alex Henrie <alexhenrie24@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2023 18:09:39 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 1/3] rebase: add documentation and test for --no-rebase-merges
Message-ID: <CAMMLpeTWsuEpC878BRh7zNZF_7pVZcaxw9A-bOwEOAPbH-rnOA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <f1e8b718-c54e-b228-860c-54d7defd9e7d@gmx.de>

On Fri, Feb 24, 2023 at 6:58 AM Johannes Schindelin
<Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:

> On Thu, 23 Feb 2023, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
> > No cover letter to summarize the changes?

> A range-diff would have been nice, too, as well as replying-to the
> previous iteration so that they're all within the same email thread.
>
> And if you want cover letters and range-diffs and correct In-Reply-To
> headers, I can think of a splendid way to encourage that: promote tools
> that do that. That's much better than to require contributors to know all
> the customs and conventions of the project and send mails in the exact
> desired format...

It would also help if those expectations were mentioned in
Documentation/SubmittingPatches. There's nothing in there about
range-diff or In-Reply-To.

I think I followed all of the customs of the Git mailing list for v5.
Please let me know if I missed something.

-Alex