Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: git-send-email | From | Peter Zijlstra <> | Date | Fri, 13 Feb 2009 10:22:38 +0100 |
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On Thu, 2009-02-12 at 18:16 -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: > lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen) writes: > > > 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. > > I personally prefer the former, but as you hopefully all found out by now, > the choice between these two is just the matter of personal taste, and > there is no clear majority. > > The default will not going to change.
Its a matter of usability, the inf deep chain git does by default renders the result unusable. Fact is I usually skip over patch series posted that way, simply because its too much of a bother.
If you can't be bothered with usability of your project, then so be it. Maybe all those rants on how unusable git is have a point after all.
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