Re: [PATCH] qgit4: Add a header and set the font family appropriately to the log message

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Feb 9, 2007, 00:29 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0702081623460.8424@woody.linux-foundation.org>
In-Reply-To: <7vk5ysw6a3.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Thu, 8 Feb 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> 
> This came up before, but when you have more than 9 in your
> series, we _could_ do [PATCH 01/12] ... [PATCH 12/12] to line
> them up in e-mail client of the recipients better.

Not just "line them up". It's more than just a visual thing.

So I long ago I asked Andrew to do that for me in his scripts, because when he sends me 150+ patches in one go, and I want to sort them to be in order, I can't depend on arrival order (because it won't be reliable) and I can't necessarily depend on date order (because he can send more than one patch a second), so what do I do? I sort by subject.

But I don't know of a _single_ email reader (and certainly not the one I use) that can "sort numerically by subject, using field #2". So it's a lot easier if the numbering is sorted _alphabetically_ rather than numerically.

Otherwise I tend to see things like

	[PATCH 1/89]
	[PATCH 10/89]
	[PATCH 11/89]
	...
	[PATCH 2/89]
	[PATCH 20/89]
	[PATCH 21/89]
	...

(note that this was mostly a problem just when syncing with Andrew: if the patch series is just in the teens or something, it may not sort easily, but you can just pick out the individual emails in order. When you have hundreds of patches, suddenly you realize that computers sorting them for you is really convenient).

			Linus