On Sun, Jul 31, 2005 at 02:45:29AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Ryan Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > All emails are sent as a reply to the previous email, making it easy to > > skip a collection of emails that are uninteresting. > > I understand why _some_ people consider this preferable, but > wonder if this should have a knob to be tweaked. > > For example, I myself often find it very hard to read when > a cascading thread goes very deep like this: > > [PATCH 0/9] cover > [PATCH 1/9] first one > [PATCH 2/9] second one > [PATCH 3/9] third one in the series > ... > > and prefer to see this instead (this assumes your MUA is > half-way decent and lets you sort by subject): > > [PATCH 0/9] cover > [PATCH 1/9] first one > [PATCH 2/9] second one > [PATCH 3/9] third one in the series > ...
In testing this, I think I figured out *why* the former is preferred - it guarantees the sorting when in the standard mode of "order by date". Since these emails are sent *very* fast, delivery order tends to be the dominating factor in how they sort in your inbox, as they will all have the same time. So that's a trifle annoying. Yes, sorting by subject will fix it, but "threaded + subject" is actually something I'm not sure much of anything supports. (It's not instantly obvious how to do it in mutt, for example - though, admittedly, Mutt may very well have a way to do it.) I noticed this while testing my 2 new fixes - those will sent in a few seconds. -- Ryan Anderson sometimes Pug Majere - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
