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From: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com>
Subject: Re: Introduce rtds real-time scheduler for Xen
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2014 08:39:06 +0100
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On Wed, 2014-09-24 at 22:14 +0100, Wei Liu wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 04:59:18PM -0400, Meng Xu wrote:
> [...]
> > 
> > >
> > > Apart from trying not to  forget the introductory mail and threading in
> > > the future, please use the same $subject prefix on the introductory mail
> > > as the rest of the series (e.g. '[PATCH for 4.5 v4 0/4]: Introduce rtds
> > > real-time scheduler for Xen'), so I can figure out what goes with what.
> > 
> > I will remember that and avoid this. I used my gmail to send the
> > introductory email and used my school's email to send the patches,
> > that could be the reason why it's hard to find the introductory mail.
> > Anyway, I will avoid this and add the introductory mail as 0/4 as you
> > said.
> > 
> 
> FWIW git format-patch has --cover option to nicely generate a cover
> letter with some useful diffstat in it. Then you can add in your stuffs
> in cover letter and send that along with other patches all in one go
> with git send-email.

Also FWIW you can use
         git send-email --in-reply-to=<message.id@domain.example>
to hook the series onto a 0/N mail which you sent manually.

Ian.