Re: git-send-email

[Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>]

Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Sun, 2009-02-15 at 18:20 +0100, Stefan Richter wrote:
>> from the manual:
>>
>>        --chain-reply-to, --no-chain-reply-to
>>            [...] Default is the value of the sendemail.chainreplyto
>>            configuration value; if that is unspecified, default to
>>            --chain-reply-to.
>>
>> Everybody who isn't afraid of configuration files can implement his
>> preferred default easily.
> 
> Yep, trouble is with all those folks who
> 
>  1) don't know about the option
>  2) aren't educated to know its a good idea to use it
> 
> So by changing the default we're better off all around.

There will always be trouble with these folks. ;-)

Two more thoughts:  Since git-send-email puts sequence information into
the Subject header, additional sequence info in the References header is
redundant.  It is sufficient that the References or In-Reply-To header
carries information about which mail thread a posting belongs to.

On the other hand, --no-chain-reply-to makes less sense if the thread
starts with a 1/n posting instead of an introductory 0/n one.

(What if git-send-email could optionally generate a 0/n posting with
shortlog and combined diffstat as default content?)
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Stefan Richter
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