[U-Boot] [PATCH 00/28] u-boot next: a generic approach for nios2 arch

[Scott Wood]

Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> Dear Peter Tyser,
> 
> In message <1269010558.3376.5270.camel at localhost.localdomain> you wrote:
>> When you resubmit, please use the "--no-chain-reply-to" option for git
>> send-email.  It will properly thread your patch series to prevent the
>> later patches from creeping off the right side of everyone's email
>> clients.
> 
> No, don't!
> 
> Peter, I strongly disagree here. If your mailer cannot handle (long)
> threads correctly, then this is your local problem.

It is not a local problem, it is a common problem.  Some people might 
claim that us not wanting to see HTML on the mailing list is a local 
problem with our mail clients, too. :-)

And I'm not entirely sure how you're proposing that a mail client 
*should* deal with such a thread.  It's a tradeoff between displaying 
less of the subject text, or breaking the display of the thread 
structure earlier.  Either one is going to be worse for certain inputs 
-- and given that in an actual discussion the subject doesn't often 
change, I'd rather see more of the thread structure.

Even when they don't go off the right edge, chained patchsets are hard 
on the eyes IMHO.  It's semantically a list, not a (fully unbalanced) 
tree.  I'm used to lists going straight down, not diagonally.

> To me it makes perfect sense that a patch series is threaded - some
> people forget to number the patches, and quite often patch arrive out
> of order. It is much easier to have these threded correctly.

So why not insist on people numbering their patches rather than creating 
a huge reply-to chain?

-Scott