Re: [PATCH v3 0/9] Rewrite packfile reuse code

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Dec 9, 2019, 19:05 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqtv69uxou.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <20191209061853.GA38588@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

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> One tricky thing here is that I leave messages or subthreads that I
> intend to act on in my incoming Git mbox. And of course as time goes on,
> those get pushed further back in the pile. But when new messages arrive,
> mutt attaches them to the old threads, and I sometimes don't see them
> (until I go back and sift through the pile).

This is why I still let a tab in my browser to be squat by GMail that shows only the traffic sent to this mailing list, as it is very good at surfacing a thread with new activity even though it is bad at everything else, including threading.

For real work, picking messages up and responding to them, I read and handle the list traffic via NNTP interface to public-inbox (and lore.k.o these days), but keeping GMail purely as a notification channel has its uses ;-).