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Re: [PATCH 2/2] send-email: supply a --send-delay=1 by default

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Mar 26, 2018, 01:56 UTC
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Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> writes:
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> A minor point: Are you sure that it's git-format-patch that's being
> careful about arranging Date: to display in the desired order, and not
> git-send-email? Looking at old patches I still have hanging around
> which were created with git-format-patch, I see the Date: headers are
> wildly out of order, presumably because the date is taken from
> Author-Date: and the patches were heavily rebased.

send-email uses the current time as the timestamp it lets MTA to see (and for a N-patch series, the first patch gets current time minus N, and later patches get newer timestamps with 1 second increment).

The Date: field in the input file to the command has nothing to participate in this process; sending a series that has patches that have been shuffled with "rebase -i" would still give older timestamp to the earlier message while sending the series out.

That is sufficient for any MUA that is capable of sorting the messages in the sender's timestamp order; even though there is no way to force the actual order in which an MTA on the receiving end sees the messages, it is not necessary and it would not help X-<.

Previous: Eric SunshineNext: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
Message 8 of 14 in “send-email: impose a delay while sending to appease GMail”
  1. 0/2 send-email: impose a delay while sending to appease GMailÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Mar 25, 2018
  2. 2/2 send-email: supply a --send-delay=1 by defaultÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Mar 25, 2018
  3. brian m. carlsonMar 25, 2018
  4. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonMar 25, 2018
  5. Eric WongMar 28, 2018
  6. Junio C HamanoMar 26, 2018
  7. Eric SunshineMar 26, 2018
  8. Junio C HamanoMar 26, 2018
  9. 1/2 send-email: add an option to impose delay sent E-MailsÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Mar 25, 2018
  10. send-email: add an option to impose delay sent E-MailsÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Aug 14, 2018
  11. Stefan BellerAug 14, 2018
  12. Eric WongAug 14, 2018
  13. Junio C HamanoAug 14, 2018
  14. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonAug 14, 2018

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