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Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] pretty: add X-Change-ID to mail formats

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DDDrew DeVault <drew@ddevault.org>
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Aug 21, 2025, 08:52 UTC
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On Thu Aug 21, 2025 at 2:50 AM CEST, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> For a topic that is older than 6 weeks, I am afraid that is a losing
> strategy.  People who might have cared about the topic said all they
> wanted to say, new people are less likely to discover the topic than
> it was fresh, and unless you make an action (e.g., posting the "next
> patch version" you mentioned in [*1*]), it is highly unlikely for
> anything to happen while you are passive.  Even a small update that
> addresses all the little feedback would serve as a "ping" to reignite
> interests.
>
> You seem to have liked the approach to generalize and encode all the
> commit object headers (except for of course the object name and
> author and committer ident, which already have place to be in the
> format-patch output) on an e-mail header in [*2*].  That should be
> sufficient for a small update that tries to reignite interests.

Oh, of course. For some reason I had had the notion that I had already written a v3 based on this feedback and it was awaiting further comments. But in fact I have done no such thing. I'll put this back on my todo list and get a v3 out in the foreseeable future.

Previous: Junio C Hamano
Message 17 of 17 in “pretty: add X-Change-ID to mail formats”
  1. 1/2 pretty: add X-Change-ID to mail formatsDrew DeVault, Jul 3, 2025
  2. 2/2 am: import X-Change-ID from email headersDrew DeVault, Jul 3, 2025
  3. Jeff KingJul 6, 2025
  4. Drew DeVaultJul 6, 2025
  5. Aditya GargJul 6, 2025
  6. Drew DeVaultJul 6, 2025
  7. Junio C HamanoJul 7, 2025
  8. Junio C HamanoJul 7, 2025
  9. Martin von ZweigbergkJul 7, 2025
  10. Martin von ZweigbergkJul 7, 2025
  11. Junio C HamanoJul 7, 2025
  12. Drew DeVaultJul 7, 2025
  13. Drew DeVaultJul 7, 2025
  14. Remo SenekowitschAug 19, 2025
  15. Drew DeVaultAug 20, 2025
  16. Junio C HamanoAug 21, 2025
  17. Drew DeVaultAug 21, 2025

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