Re: Sending a thread of patches

From: Julian Phillips <julian@quantumfyre.co.uk>
Date: Mar 4, 2007, 23:56 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0703042354250.15433@beast.quantumfyre.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <45EB4F98.7030206@issaris.org>

On Mon, 5 Mar 2007, Panagiotis Issaris wrote:

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> Hi,
>
> 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. The CC-ed emails which arrived 
> in my inbox do not appear in one thread either, half of
> them do end up in one thread, the other half don't. This is possibly (most 
> likely?) a Thunderbird problem as the e-mails appear alright in Mutt,
> but I was wondering if other people had noticed similar problems with 
> Thunderbird+git-format-patch+git-send-email and if they might have some
> workarounds. Or, if someone might  notice that I am just using incorrect 
> parameters for both commands.
>
> 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

As far as I can figure, you don't want to use the --thread option to git-format-patch when using git-send-email. However, I found git-send-email confusing enough that I just finished writing my own script to sit ontop of git-format-patch so I may be wrong ...

-- 
Julian

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