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

[Scott Wood]

On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 07:36:55AM +0200, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> Dear Mike Frysinger,
> 
> In message <200908230001.46558.vapier at gentoo.org> you 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 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.

I much prefer the first form.  Besides being more like just about every
other vertical list in the world, the second form tends to push the
meaningful bit of the subject line off the right edge of the screen.  The
[U-Boot] tag doesn't help in that respect either...

-Scott