Re: [PATCH v2 0/9] Teach 'run' perf script to read config files

[Roberto Tyley <roberto.tyley@gmail.com>]

On 26 September 2017 at 16:40, Christian Couder
<christian.couder@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 24, 2017 at 9:59 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>> Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> (It looks like smtp.gmail.com isn't working anymore for me, so I am
>>> trying to send this using Gmail for the cover letter and Submitgit for
>>> the patches.)
>>
>> SubmitGit may want to learn the "change the timestamps of the
>> individual patches by 1 second" trick from "git send-email" to help
>> threading (you can view inbox/comp.version-control.git/ group over
>> nntp and tell your newsreader to sort-by-date).
>
> Roberto is now in CC. I will let him answer about that.

I had a quick look at git-send-email.perl, I see the trick is the `time++` one
introduced with https://github.com/git/git/commit/a5370b16 - seems reasonable!

SubmitGit makes all emails in-reply-to the initial email, which I
think is correct behaviour,
but I can see that offsetting the times would probably give a more
reliable sorting in
a newsreader. Unfortunately the documentation for AWS Simple Email Service (SES)
says:

  "Note: Amazon SES overrides any Date header you provide with the
time that Amazon
  SES accepts the message."

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/ses/latest/DeveloperGuide/header-fields.html

...so the only way SubmitGit can offset the times is to literally
delay the sending of the emails,
which is a bit unfortunate for patchbombs more than a few dozen commits long!

I'll take a further look at this when I get a bit more free time.

Roberto