On Thu, 23 Aug 2007 15:49:56 -0700 Greg KH wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 12:43:47AM +0200, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote:
> > Hi Greg,
> >
> > sorry, this is a private egoistic request, so I took the liberty and
> > removed Linus and Andrew from CC: If this wouldn't make things more
> > difficult / worse for you and anyone else, could you perhaps post such
> > patch chains as a reply to the first message (patch 0/x) and not each
> > subsequent patch as a reply to the previous one? It would make it easier
> > to view for _me_ (remember egoistic?) because my mail agent (pine)
> > presents mail threads where every reply level produces a small right
> > offset in the subject line, so, starting from about reply number 20 the
> > subject is completely off-screen.
> >
> > Again, this is a minor trouble, and, perhaps, I am the only one suffering
> > from it, but if it doesn't matter either way for everyone else, I would
> > really appreciate it that way.
>
> Heh, people ask me about this every few months or so, so you are not
> alone.
I'd prefer that change also. In fact I just modified (trivial)
send_lots_of_email.pl (gregkh_patchbomb mailer) to do this,
except that I just have it create an mbox that I email via
msmtp. (and it reads a 'sendpatchset' control file for input
instead of needing to modify the script source file itself)
> Unfortunately, I really like the cascade affect, it shows that the
> patches do have to be applied in consecutive order for them to work
> properly (which some people seem to forget and then get mad at me when
> they try to cherry-pick intermediate patches and apply them to older
> kernels for odd reasons...)
A patch series such as:
PATCH 0/n: intro/summary
|_ PATCH 1/n: desc1
|_ PATCH 2/n: desc2
|_ PATCH 3/n: desc3
should imply a patch order also, shouldn't it? At least it does
to me and to users of Paul Jackson's 'sendpatchset' script,
which acts in this way.
> If I wanted to respond in an egotistical way, I could just tell you to
> use an email client that can handle the cascade affect properly, like
> mine does :)
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