From: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
To: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] format-patch: thread as reply to cover letter even with in-reply-to
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 15:22:14 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <76718490902161222p7f1ecbf9x6f965ff94b3cfae7@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1234810812-30499-1-git-send-email-trast@student.ethz.ch>
On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 2:00 PM, Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch> wrote:
> Currently, format-patch --thread --cover-letter --in-reply-to $parent
> makes all mails, including the cover letter, a reply to $parent.
> However, we would want the reader to consider the cover letter above
> all the patches.
>
> This changes the semantics so that only the cover letter is a reply to
> $parent, while all the patches are formatted as replies to the cover
> letter.
I think this change may be okay, but I think to go with it the
cover-letter and all the patches should have a "References:" header
with the message-id given by --in-reply-to.
RFC 2822 says:
The "In-Reply-To:" and "References:" fields are used when creating a
reply to a message. They hold the message identifier of the original
message and the message identifiers of other messages (for example,
in the case of a reply to a message which was itself a reply). The
"In-Reply-To:" field may be used to identify the message (or
messages) to which the new message is a reply, while the
"References:" field may be used to identify a "thread" of
conversation.
j.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-02-16 20:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-02-14 19:54 [PATCH] bash completion: offer more options for gitk Thomas Rast
2009-02-15 9:33 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-02-15 9:56 ` Santi Béjar
2009-02-16 16:34 ` [PATCH v2 0/2] bash completion: more options for gitk/log/shortlog Thomas Rast
2009-02-16 16:38 ` Thomas Rast
2009-02-16 19:00 ` [RFC PATCH] format-patch: thread as reply to cover letter even with in-reply-to Thomas Rast
2009-02-16 20:22 ` Jay Soffian [this message]
2009-02-16 20:34 ` Thomas Rast
2009-02-16 20:52 ` Jakub Narebski
2009-02-16 23:27 ` Thomas Rast
2009-02-19 21:26 ` [PATCH 0/4] format-patch --cover-letter --in-reply-to Thomas Rast
2009-02-19 21:26 ` [PATCH 1/4] format-patch: threading test reactivation Thomas Rast
2009-02-19 21:26 ` [PATCH 2/4] format-patch: track several references Thomas Rast
2009-02-19 22:41 ` Daniel Barkalow
2009-02-20 19:55 ` [PATCH v2 next 0/4] format-patch --cover-letter --in-reply-to Thomas Rast
2009-02-20 19:55 ` [PATCH v2 next 1/4] format-patch: threading test reactivation Thomas Rast
2009-02-20 19:55 ` [PATCH v2 next 2/4] format-patch: track several references Thomas Rast
2009-02-20 19:55 ` [PATCH v2 next 3/4] format-patch: thread as reply to cover letter even with in-reply-to Thomas Rast
2009-02-20 19:55 ` [PATCH v2 next 4/4] format-patch: support deep threading Thomas Rast
2009-02-22 16:49 ` [PATCH v2 next 0/4] format-patch --cover-letter --in-reply-to Junio C Hamano
2009-02-19 21:26 ` [PATCH 3/4] format-patch: thread as reply to cover letter even with in-reply-to Thomas Rast
2009-02-19 21:26 ` [PATCH 4/4] format-patch: support deep threading Thomas Rast
2009-02-16 16:34 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] bash completion: refactor common log, shortlog and gitk options Thomas Rast
2009-02-16 16:34 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] bash completion: only show 'log --merge' if merging Thomas Rast
2009-02-18 17:05 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2009-02-18 19:02 ` Junio C Hamano
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