Re: [PATCH] Documentation/email-clients.txt: discuss In-Reply-To

[Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>]

On Fri, 23 Oct 2015 12:13:01 -0400
Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@ezchip.com> wrote:

> +When manually adding In-Reply-To: headers to a patch (e.g., using `git
> +send email`), use common sense to associate the patch with previous
> +relevant discussion, e.g. link a bug fix to the email with the bug report.
> +For a multi-patch series, it is generally best to avoid using
> +In-Reply-To: to link to older versions of the series.  This way
> +multiple versions of the patch don't become an unmanageable forest of
> +references in email clients.  If a link is helpful, you can use an
> +"http://lkml.kernel.org/r/MESSAGEID" URL (e.g., in the cover email
> +text) to link to an earlier version of the patch series.

So this is sitting in my docs folder waiting to see if anybody else had
anything to say.  Nope.  I guess I'm not opposed to this addition, but
I'm not quite sure what problem is being solved.  Is there a plague of
inappropriate hand-crafted In-Reply-To headers out there that I've not
seen?

Beyond that, this seems like advice that is better put into
SubmittingPatches if we really want it.

Thanks,

jon