[U-Boot] [PATCH 00/17] i386 Updates (touches some common drivers)

[Mike Frysinger]

On Sunday 23 August 2009 01:36:55 Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > please set sendemail.chainreplyto to false in your git settings.  patch
> > series
>
> Why that?
>
> > should be like:
> > [summary 0/xx]
> >
> > |- [patch 1/xx]
> > |- [patch 2/xx]
> >
> > ....
> >
> > not:
> > [summary 0/xx]
> > `- [patch 1/xx]
> >   `- [patch 2/xx]
> >     `- ....
>
> On contrary. The second form is much more useful as it also indicates
> the order in which patches should be applied - too often people forget
> the -n.

the numbering indicates the proper order and that is what -n controls.  it's 
not directly related to threading as that is an independent option --chain-
reply-to.

> > the latter makes things a lot more painful for people to parse with their
> > e- mail clients.
>
> Huh? To me that makes no difference. Actually, I like the second form
> better.

you must either not thread your e-mails properly, or your monitor is insanely 
wide and/or you use insanely small fonts.  as soon as you hit 10+ depth on 
threads, subjects easily start getting truncated in the display.  seeing a few 
to no characters in the e-mail reader for a subject is a pita.  if it's all 
the same thread, that's one thing as the subject doesnt really change, but in 
this case they arent.

sane example:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.boot-loaders.u-boot/66481

insane example:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.boot-loaders.u-boot/66597
-mike
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