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Mon, 8 Jun 2026 02:48:30 -0400 (EDT) Received: by mail (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTPSA id d304722e (TLSv1.3:TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256:NO); Mon, 8 Jun 2026 06:48:30 +0000 (UTC) Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2026 08:48:27 +0200 From: Patrick Steinhardt To: Weijie Yuan Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Junio C Hamano , Tuomas Ahola , Ramsay Jones Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] Documentation/MyFirstContribution: recommend shallow threading Message-ID: References: <20260603-pks-b4-v2-0-a8aea0aa2c23@pks.im> <20260603-pks-b4-v2-1-a8aea0aa2c23@pks.im> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: On Wed, Jun 03, 2026 at 06:29:32PM +0800, Weijie Yuan wrote: > I'm afraid there will be some chaos. I think "chaos" is a bit exaggerated. We already have both styles on the mailing list, and I think in general people are able to cope with that just fine. :) > As mentioned earlier, GitGitGadget now supports deep nesting of > iterations, if b4 changes while GitGitGadget doesn't, it would be > inconsistent in the archive. So, negotiation is necessary here. That's a good point though -- if we change the recommendation, we should aim to change it consistently. I'll talk with Dscho (maintainer of GGG) today. Thanks! Patrick