linux-kernel - Re: git-send-email

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Date:	Thu, 12 Feb 2009 14:21:04 -0500
From:	lsorense@...lub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen)
To:	Ingo Oeser <ioe-lkml@...eria.de>
Cc:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Junio C Hamano <gitster@...ox.com>,
	L-K <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: git-send-email

On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 06:25:34PM +0100, Ingo Oeser wrote:
> No, they are great, if you like to skip over a topic, you are not
> interested in at all!
> 
> If you don't like it, just switch off thread in your mailer and
> don't force this on everybody else!

Actually if (as apparently many people seem to manage to do) you have a
single starting email, with all the patches as replies to that first
email, it looks a lot better, and is much easier to follow.

Seperate threads would be bad.

foobar patch 0 (usually a summary/overview)
+-foobar patch 1
+-foobar patch 2
+-foobar patch 3
+-foobar patch 4
+-foobar patch 5

is much nicer than

foobar patch 0
+-foobar patch 1
  +-foobar patch 2
    +-foobar patch 3
      +-foobar patch 4
        +-foobar patch 5

which seems to be what git does itself.

-- 
Len Sorensen
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