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Re: Git Survey summary

From
Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date
Sep 21, 2006, 16:49 UTC
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<eeufqg$bvc$1@sea.gmane.org>
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<20060921163452.GW8259@pasky.or.cz>
Petr Baudis wrote:
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>> When reading the mailing list via the web I do tend to read through
>> GMane more than MARC but I can't state why I have that preference.
>> It just happens.  Maybe I prefer white backgrounds over black ones?
> 
> Surprisingly few web mailing list interfaces are actually usable for
> reading threads. Gmane is, MARC isn't (you don't see the list of
> references and replies to the current mail, and the next/prev in thread
> links somehow don't seem to be very reliable). That's a killer feature
> for me, if MARC had that I'd have preferred it (I like black background
> and dislike frames).

From what I guessed, MARC groups threads by _title only_, while GMane seems to parse In-Reply-To:/References: headers for threading.

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
ShadeHawk on #git
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Message 8 of 13 in “Git Survey summary”
  1. Nguyễn Thái Ngọc DuySep 12, 2006
  2. Nguyễn Thái Ngọc DuySep 21, 2006
  3. Jakub NarebskiSep 21, 2006
  4. Shawn PearceSep 21, 2006
  5. Jakub NarebskiSep 21, 2006
  6. Shawn PearceSep 21, 2006
  7. Petr BaudisSep 21, 2006
  8. Jakub NarebskiSep 21, 2006
  9. Jakub NarebskiSep 21, 2006
  10. Petr BaudisSep 21, 2006
  11. Shawn PearceSep 21, 2006
  12. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuySep 21, 2006
  13. Petr BaudisSep 21, 2006

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