# Git send-email not sending email patches as subsequent replies 3 messages from 2018-04-06 to 2018-04-08. Participants: David Davis, Eric Wong. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/48234 ## David Davis, 2018-04-06 19:28 Subject: Git send-email not sending email patches as subsequent replies Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/CANqAOmsZxpbkT3YFcZTOeRx2gnxnzc%2B_C-amVQjKSE%3D0m7_n7w%40mail.gmail.com ``` Hello, I have the following git send-email command: git send-email -5 --quiet --thread --no-chain-reply-to --compose --subject='Recent Base Prototype Changes Summary' --to=davisdavid@google.com --from=davisdavid@google.com It's sending emails but as 5 individual emails and not as subsequent replies as suggested on https://git-scm.com/docs/git-send-email below: So for example when --thread and --no-chain-reply-to are specified, the second and subsequent patches will be replies to the first one like in the illustration below where [PATCH v2 0/3] is in reply to [PATCH 0/2]: [PATCH 0/2] Here is what I did... [PATCH 1/2] Clean up and tests [PATCH 2/2] Implementation [PATCH v2 0/3] Here is a reroll [PATCH v2 1/3] Clean up [PATCH v2 2/3] New tests [PATCH v2 3/3] Implementation What am I missing? Thanks, David ``` ## Eric Wong, 2018-04-07 23:08 Subject: Re: Git send-email not sending email patches as subsequent replies Message-ID: <20180407230848.GA5048@80x24.org> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20180407230848.GA5048%4080x24.org In-Reply-To: ``` David Davis wrote: > Hello, I have the following git send-email command: > > git send-email -5 --quiet --thread --no-chain-reply-to --compose > --subject='Recent Base Prototype Changes Summary' > --to=davisdavid@google.com --from=davisdavid@google.com > > It's sending emails but as 5 individual emails and not as subsequent > replies as suggested on https://git-scm.com/docs/git-send-email below: So, I expect the above command should give you six emails: [PATCH 0/5] Recent Base Prototype Changes Summary [PATCH 1/5] [PATCH 2/5] [PATCH 3/5] [PATCH 4/5] [PATCH 5/5] Is that not what you're seeing? You're quoting the manpage for --in-reply-to option below, but you're not using that option. > So for example when --thread and --no-chain-reply-to are specified, > the second and subsequent patches will be replies to the first one > like in the illustration below where [PATCH v2 0/3] is in reply to > [PATCH 0/2]: > > [PATCH 0/2] Here is what I did... > [PATCH 1/2] Clean up and tests > [PATCH 2/2] Implementation > [PATCH v2 0/3] Here is a reroll > [PATCH v2 1/3] Clean up > [PATCH v2 2/3] New tests > [PATCH v2 3/3] Implementation > > What am I missing? I'm not sure... I suspect you're either not using --in-reply-to= or misreading the manpage, somehow. ``` ## Eric Wong, 2018-04-08 02:47 Subject: Re: Git send-email not sending email patches as subsequent replies Message-ID: <20180408024749.GA19319@whir> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20180408024749.GA19319%40whir In-Reply-To: ``` David Davis wrote: > I'm seeing 6 individual emails, how do I just see one email followed by 5 > email replies to the one? I don't want six individual emails. The five email replies you want are still individual emails. Emails are ALWAYS "individual", and reply emails simply have a References: and/or In-Reply-To: header in them. Whether your mail client shows them as individual mails is another story. I also suspect whatever mail client you're using isn't rendering thread hierarchies correctly. Most good mail clients use the same algorithm to display message threads since the days of Netscape: https://www.jwz.org/doc/threading.html I've also modified that algorithm to be recursion-free for public-inbox: https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=116727 Btw, please disable HTML mail in your mail client or it won't show up on the list (and other people won't be able to help). I may not be around much for a bit. ```