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Mon, 8 Jun 2026 02:48:47 -0400 (EDT) Received: by mail (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTPSA id 66c9477f (TLSv1.3:TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256:NO); Mon, 8 Jun 2026 06:48:46 +0000 (UTC) Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2026 08:48:44 +0200 From: Patrick Steinhardt To: SZEDER =?utf-8?B?R8OhYm9y?= Cc: Weijie Yuan , Tuomas Ahola , git@vger.kernel.org, Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] b4: introduce configuration for the Git project Message-ID: References: <20260602-pks-b4-v1-0-a7ae5a49e9cf@pks.im> <20260602-pks-b4-v1-1-a7ae5a49e9cf@pks.im> <20260602170955.Z4b7y%taahol@utu.fi> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: On Wed, Jun 03, 2026 at 01:07:33PM +0200, SZEDER Gábor wrote: > On Wed, Jun 03, 2026 at 08:55:04AM +0200, Patrick Steinhardt wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 03, 2026 at 10:12:22AM +0800, Weijie Yuan wrote: > > > On Tue, Jun 02, 2026 at 08:09:55PM +0300, Tuomas Ahola wrote: > > > > Huh? Doesn't MyFirstContribution speak *against* shallow threading? > > > > > > > > [...] make sure to replace it with the correct Message-ID for your > > > > **previous cover letter** - that is, if you're sending v2, use the Message-ID > > > > from v1; if you're sending v3, use the Message-ID from v2. > > > > > > I don't get it. Doesn't shallow threading means every following patches > > > are replying to the cover letter? Replying to the previous one is > > > --chain-reply-to, if I'm not mistaken. > > > > Shallow threading basically means that all patches are sent as a > > response to the current cover letter, and the current cover letter is > > always attached to the cover letter of the _first_ version. > > No, in Git shallow threading means that all patches are sent as a > respose to the current cover letter, period. It has nothing to do > with whether the current cover letter is sent as a reply to the cover > letter of the first or the previous version. > > > So this quote is definitely at odds with the configuration I have > > proposed. It's actually quite surprising to me that we recommend deep > > threading -- I personally find it extremely hard to navigate as the > > nesting eventually gets way too deep. > > Deep threading means that every mail is a reply to the previous one. > Again, it has nothing to do with the relation of the current cover > letter and the previous cover letters. > > Therefore, we do not recommend deep threading. Oh, you're right of course. I totally forgot that we even had this style. Patrick