[U-Boot] [PATCH/next v3 00/28] tools/Makefile cleanup and win32 tool support

[Peter Tyser]

On Tue, 2009-03-17 at 13:43 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Tuesday 17 March 2009 13:21:05 Scott Wood wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 06:54:24PM -0500, Peter Tyser wrote:
> > > This patch series attempts to do 2 things:
> > > 1. Add support for generating win32 versions of the tools in tools/
> > > 2. Cleanup tools/Makefile somewhat
> > >
> > > In the process of #1 I couldn't help but work on #2 a bit:)  Let me
> > > know if people would prefer the patches split up.
> >
> > <peeve type="pet">
> > It's easier to read patchsets, especially large ones, when each message
> > is a reply to the original rather than to the preceding patch (which
> > in many mailers makes the subjects appear shifted one character to the
> > right compared to the parent post, eventually scrolling off the right
> > edge of the screen).
> > </peeve>
> 
> your mailer does just one char ?  i should switch from kmail to whatever 
> you're using :) ...
> 
> Peter: if you update to git-1.6.2 (well, maybe what i describe happens in 
> earlier versions, but i know 1.6.2 is good), then you can use --cover-letter 
> to `git format-patch` and `git send-email` will thread things the way Scott 
> describes if you send all the patches together: `git send-email 0*.patch`.
> 
> the cover letter will be the thread starter and all the patches in the series 
> will refer to that one rather than each N patch referring to N-1 in the 
> series.

I see similar default threading styles in both 1.6.0 and 1.6.2.  It
looks like I was missing git send-email's "--no-chain-reply-to"
argument.  I added "sendmail.chainreplyto = false" to my .gitconfig
which also does the trick.

It makes me wonder why --chain-reply-to would ever be the default...

Peter