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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Ingo Oeser <ioe-lkml@rameria.de>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
	L-K <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: git-send-email
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 18:27:23 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1234459643.10603.33.camel@laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200902121825.35021.ioe-lkml@rameria.de>

On Thu, 2009-02-12 at 18:25 +0100, Ingo Oeser wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Thursday 12 February 2009, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > could we change the default of git-send-email to --no-chain-reply-to?
> > These incredibly deep mail threads are a nuisance.
> 
> No, they are great, if you like to skip over a topic, you are not
> interested in at all!

A single depth thread can do that too.

> If you don't like it, just switch off thread in your mailer and
> don't force this on everybody else!

That's something quite different. I quite like the subject grouping,
what I don't like is not being able to read distinct subject lines
because the n-th email in the patch series in so deep the threading in
my mailer can't display the subject anymore.


  reply	other threads:[~2009-02-12 17:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-02-12 15:15 git-send-email Peter Zijlstra
2009-02-12 17:25 ` git-send-email Ingo Oeser
2009-02-12 17:27   ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2009-02-12 19:21   ` git-send-email Lennart Sorensen
2009-02-12 22:17     ` git-send-email Peter Zijlstra
2009-02-13  9:34       ` git-send-email Ingo Oeser
2009-02-13 16:39         ` git-send-email Lennart Sorensen
2009-02-13 22:25           ` git-send-email Junio C Hamano
2009-02-15 17:20             ` git-send-email Stefan Richter
2009-02-15 18:30               ` git-send-email Peter Zijlstra
2009-02-15 19:25                 ` git-send-email Stefan Richter
2009-02-16 20:58               ` git-send-email Joel Becker
2009-02-13  2:16     ` git-send-email Junio C Hamano
2009-02-13  9:22       ` git-send-email Peter Zijlstra
2009-02-13  9:27         ` git-send-email Willy Tarreau
2009-02-13 18:13       ` git-send-email H. Peter Anvin
2009-02-13 18:59         ` git-send-email Cyrill Gorcunov
2009-02-16 23:51 ` git-send-email Jeremy Fitzhardinge

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