Re: Sending a thread of patches

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Mar 4, 2007, 23:44 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0703050030210.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <45EB4F98.7030206@issaris.org>

Hi,

On Mon, 5 Mar 2007, Panagiotis Issaris wrote:

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> I am trying to send a thread of patches to a mailinglist but the e-mails do
> not show up as one thread in some mailclients.
> Gmane shows the patches nicely in one thread [1], but Thunderbird shows all of
> them _except one_ as a thread. E-mail [PATCH 02/31]
> does not show up in the thread but beside it.

This might be related to the fact that you have two (!) In-Reply-To: headers. See:

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.video.ffmpeg.devel/45716/raw

to verify.

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> These are the commands I used:
> git format-patch --thread --attach -n origin..or2
> git-send-email --no-chain-reply-to --to ffmpeg-devel@mplayerhq.hu  --from
> takis.issaris@uhasselt.be --subject "[PATCH 00/31] Various Doxygen related
> patches"  --suppress-from --compose 00*patch

I have the impression from reading git-send-email that a second 
In-Reply-To: header is set if --chain-reply-to _or_ no --in-reply-to is 
specified. Since you do not have an --in-reply-to in your command line, I 
guess it is that.

However, I do not claim that I understand _why_ this is the behaviour, nor that I ever used git-send-email.

Ciao, Dscho