From: Julian Phillips Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2007 23:56:42 GMT Subject: Re: Sending a thread of patches Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <45EB4F98.7030206@issaris.org> On Mon, 5 Mar 2007, Panagiotis Issaris wrote: > 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 --- ... relaxed in the manner of a man who has no need to put up a front of any kind. -- John Ball, "Mark One: the Dummy"