Re: [PATCH RFC 1/6] send-email: Add --delay for separating emails

[Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>]

On Thu, 9 Apr 2009, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> 
> > I disagree that it's unintrusive (and I understand that you don't think
> > it is, and that there may be others like you, but I am pointing out
> > there are others who think the opposite). But given that it's optional,
> > and it's not very much code, I don't have a strong objection. My
> > original comment was that I was dubious whether it would work: however,
> > I was thinking you would set it to a few seconds. Setting it to 60
> > seconds, I can imagine it would have an impact.
> 
> Heh, then why not make the option specify the number of _minutes_ not
> seconds to delay?  That would help clarifying what this option is meant to
> do.

Maybe only a few seconds is all that is needed in some circumstances.
For the issue I just posted, I wouldn't use it at all if the minimum 
delay was one minute.


Nicolas