On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 4:53 PM, Richard Heck <rgh...@lyx.org> wrote: > On 08/23/2013 03:58 PM, Scott Kostyshak wrote: >> >> I think that it's great that there is one email for each commit. >> Thank you (to Richard?) for implementing this. >> >> I just pushed 5 commits and the emails that I received regarding them >> was not in the same order. I am taking a wild guess in that they were >> sent out correctly (based on commit date?), but that the email server >> does not process closely received emails in a way that order is >> guaranteed. If this is the case, would a 5 second delay in sending to >> the mail-server make things any better? >> >> This is of course not a big deal but sometimes having the correct >> order can be useful for commits that depend on each other. > > > Someone else may know better than I, but I doubt there is much we can do to > talk sendmail > into sending emails in a particular order. Presumably, putting some kind of > delay mechnanism > into the script would help, but it wouldn't guarantee anything. I think git > would also freeze if > we put in some kind of sleep. I.e., no one else could commit while it was > sending mail.
Thanks for the explanation, Richard. I agree then that nothing should be changed. If order is important for a set of commits, I can always just stagger pushing those commits. Scott
