Re: [RFC] Stopping those fat "What's cooking in git.git" threads

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Jul 21, 2008, 10:21 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0807211220150.3305@eeepc-johanness>
In-Reply-To: <20080721063332.GA15596@artemis.madism.org>

Hi,

On Mon, 21 Jul 2008, Pierre Habouzit wrote:

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> On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 09:05:30PM +0000, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> > Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org> writes:
> > 
> > > So here is what I thought about: What about if everyone (except Junio,
> > > of course) would change the subject _and_ remove the In-Reply-To: header
> > > when replying to those mails?
> > >
> > > If those large threads just annoys a few people and most people are
> > > happy with the current situation then sorry for the noise.
> > 
> > I could make "What's cooking" not a follow-up to the previous issue,
> 
>   That'd be great, especially since it's trivial with decent MUAs to get
> all issues with a filter (l in mutt, kmail/thunderbird has what it
> needs, and I would be surprised if GNUS or pine cannot do that).

But what you lose is the ability to tell "this cooking came directly after that cooking".

And in the GMane interface, it is sure a nice thing to be able to go back and forth between cookings in a thread.

Ciao, Dscho