Re: [Quilt-dev] [PATCH] mail-single-patch.diff

[John Vandenberg]

On 9/19/05, Andreas Gruenbacher <address@hidden> wrote:
> > A sub-series starting from the first patch in the series?  That is
> > usually where the sub-series of good patches will be.  a sub-series in
> > the middle of the series has the same problems as cherry picking.
>
> Not really. Say you send off five patches, the first two get accepted, and the
> third and fourth needs to be adapted. Then sending only thouse should be
> fine.

Sure.  Reposting patches needn't have the same checks and balances in place.

> > > Next we probably want to allow sending patches as reply to another
> > > message. I'm still short of good ideas with this.
> >
> > How about the these for bad idea's to get the discussion going .. :)
> >
> > Can we repost patches by recording the message-id? in the patch
> > header?  Reposting would not need the same level of smarts, as the
> > patches were once verified, and the recipients are less likely to be
> > scratching their heads.
> >
> > For replies to others, pass a --msgid to mail ?
>
> We'd need the message ids of replies to the original patch too, not only the
> ones we've generated ourself.

Does MHonArc include sufficient information in the page comments?  The
lkml.org list archive appears to have all the data available under the
[Headers] link, but the HTML source looks scary.  Google groups also
looks usable, but it places a _lot_ of garbage at the top.

--
John