From: Kristoffer Haugsbakk Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2025 21:28:55 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] add a message-id header to git Message-ID: In-Reply-To: On Thu, Oct 16, 2025, at 23:18, Junio C Hamano wrote: > James Bottomley writes: > >> So this one's a bit more deliberate. If you import email and then re- >> send as email we can't keep the same message-id; the internet RFCs >> require us to keep message-ids unique, so git-format-patch won't output >> the message-id. That necessarily also means that the poor man's rebase >> you cite above will still run, but it would drop the message-id header. > > That is one more reason why I do not want it in the header, or "-m" > to overwrite existing message-id trailer. If I received a patch via > a message, applied, and forwarded it out of a commit I previously > created from a message I earlier received from elsewhere, I would > want the recipient of my forwarded patch message to be able to link > the message I forward with the original message, probably in the > mailing list archive where I took the message from in the first > place. X-Git-Original-Message-ID: ? -- Kristoffer Haugsbakk