From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jonathan Corbet Subject: Re: Announcing nntpgit Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2012 14:43:09 -0700 Organization: LWN.net Message-ID: <20120224144309.4657052e@dt> References: <20120224133942.49a7a420@dt> <7v62evykrq.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Junio C Hamano X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Feb 24 22:43:31 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1S12vI-0005LW-KO for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Fri, 24 Feb 2012 22:43:28 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757286Ab2BXVnM (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Feb 2012 16:43:12 -0500 Received: from tex.lwn.net ([70.33.254.29]:38363 "EHLO vena.lwn.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754766Ab2BXVnL (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Feb 2012 16:43:11 -0500 Received: from dt (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by vena.lwn.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D36B154005A; Fri, 24 Feb 2012 14:43:10 -0700 (MST) In-Reply-To: <7v62evykrq.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.8.0 (GTK+ 2.24.10; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Fri, 24 Feb 2012 13:38:33 -0800 Junio C Hamano wrote: > How do you handle message threading (References: and In-Reply-To:)? > > Would a commit on the "mainline" (a rough approximation of it would be > "log --first-parent" starting from the tip) form the discussion starter > article, and any side branch that fork from them would be a discussion > thread starting at the commit? There's really no threading at all at this point; it's just a linear series of commits-as-messages as provided by a vanilla "git log". I could certainly see trying to do something fancier, if it were useful, but it's not something I've thought about much yet. Like I said, it's really young stuff :) jon