From: Nicolas Sebrecht <nicolas.s-dev@laposte.net>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH RFC 1/6] Re: send-email: Add --delay for separating emails
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2009 00:08:54 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090407220854.GA12908@vidovic> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090407215143.GA18144@coredump.intra.peff.net>
On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 05:51:43PM -0400, Jeff King wrote:
> > When sending a patch series, the emails often arrive at the final
> > destination out of order; though these emails should be chained
> > via the In-Reply-To headers, some mail-viewing systems display
> > by order of arrival instead.
> >
> > The --delay option provides a means for specifying that there
> > should be a certain number of seconds of delay between sending
> > emails, so that the arrival order can be controlled better.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com>
> I think it may still be reasonable to implement a solution that only
> covers some of the cases, but I what I am asking is if we know what
> percentage of the cases that is. If we are preventing only 1% of
> out-of-order deliveries with this, I question whether it is worth the
> bother.
IMHO, this improvement is broken by design. We try to fix a
receiver-only issue by a sender side fix.
If the receiver wants the patch series be in a good ordered _for sure_, he
has to switch to a client mail supporting the In-Reply-To chains.
--
Nicolas Sebrecht
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-07 22:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-04-07 21:25 [PATCH RFC 1/6] send-email: Add --delay for separating emails Michael Witten
2009-04-07 21:25 ` [PATCH RFC 2/6] send-email: --smtp-server-port should take an integer Michael Witten
2009-04-07 21:25 ` [PATCH RFC 3/6] send-email: Handle "GIT:" rather than "GIT: " during --compose Michael Witten
2009-04-07 21:25 ` [PATCH RFC 4/6] send-email: --compose takes optional argument to existing file Michael Witten
2009-04-07 21:25 ` [PATCH RFC 5/6] send-email: Cleanup the usage text a bit Michael Witten
2009-04-07 21:25 ` [PATCH RFC 6/6] send-email: Remove horrible mix of tabs and spaces Michael Witten
2009-04-07 21:35 ` demerphq
2009-04-07 21:42 ` Michael Witten
2009-04-07 21:44 ` demerphq
2009-04-07 21:57 ` demerphq
2009-04-07 22:00 ` Jeff King
2009-04-07 22:10 ` Andreas Ericsson
2009-04-07 23:33 ` Tomas Carnecky
2009-04-08 2:02 ` Jeff King
2009-04-11 19:22 ` [PATCH RFC 5/6] send-email: Cleanup the usage text a bit Junio C Hamano
2009-04-11 19:22 ` [PATCH RFC 4/6] send-email: --compose takes optional argument to existing file Junio C Hamano
2009-04-11 19:22 ` [PATCH RFC 3/6] send-email: Handle "GIT:" rather than "GIT: " during --compose Junio C Hamano
2009-04-11 20:45 ` Michael Witten
2009-04-12 0:59 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-04-12 2:36 ` Michael Witten
2009-04-07 23:20 ` [PATCH RFC 2/6] send-email: --smtp-server-port should take an integer Junio C Hamano
2009-04-11 19:22 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-04-11 21:01 ` Wesley J. Landaker
2009-04-11 21:07 ` Michael Witten
2009-04-07 21:51 ` [PATCH RFC 1/6] send-email: Add --delay for separating emails Jeff King
2009-04-07 22:08 ` Nicolas Sebrecht [this message]
2009-04-07 22:17 ` [PATCH RFC 1/6] " Andreas Ericsson
2009-04-08 6:05 ` Jeff King
2009-04-08 6:03 ` Jeff King
2009-04-07 23:17 ` [PATCH RFC 1/6] " Junio C Hamano
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-04-08 14:25 Michael Witten
2009-04-09 16:17 ` [PATCH RFC 1/6] " Nicolas Sebrecht
2009-04-09 17:27 ` Michael Witten
2009-04-09 17:38 ` Michael Witten
2009-04-09 17:45 ` Nicolas Sebrecht
2009-04-09 18:43 ` Michael Witten
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