Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 13 Feb 2009 10:27:37 +0100 | From | Willy Tarreau <> | Subject | Re: git-send-email |
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Hi Peter,
On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 10:22:38AM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > 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.
While your last comment seems a bit excessive to me, I agree with you about the threading problem. I have to turn threads off to read some of these long mails because the subject does not fit in my terminal, and most of the time I only see just something like '[PATCH' which is pretty useless.
The former mode (as used by Greg when he posts his huge stable series) is a lot more convenient. Also, if one mail gets dropped for whatever reason in between, the threading is not broken.
Regards, Willy
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