From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS31976 209.132.180.0/23 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.8 required=3.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00, FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN,FREEMAIL_FROM,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MALFORMED_FREEMAIL,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI,RP_MATCHES_RCVD shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by dcvr.yhbt.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF95B1F859 for ; Sat, 6 Aug 2016 22:31:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751534AbcHFWbs (ORCPT ); Sat, 6 Aug 2016 18:31:48 -0400 Received: from mout.gmx.net ([212.227.15.15]:50228 "EHLO mout.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751059AbcHFWbq (ORCPT ); Sat, 6 Aug 2016 18:31:46 -0400 Received: from virtualbox ([37.24.141.218]) by mail.gmx.com (mrgmx001) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 0MEGIi-1bTkJ83jEu-00FWd7; Sat, 06 Aug 2016 10:45:15 +0200 Date: Sat, 6 Aug 2016 10:44:56 +0200 (CEST) From: Johannes Schindelin X-X-Sender: virtualbox@virtualbox To: Eric Wong cc: Stefan Beller , Junio C Hamano , Git Mailing List , Eric Sunshine , Jeff King , Johannes Sixt , Duy Nguyen , =?UTF-8?Q?Jakub_Nar=C4=99bski?= Subject: Re: patch submission process, was Re: [PATCH v6 06/16] merge_recursive: abort properly upon errors In-Reply-To: <20160805184656.GA463@starla> Message-ID: References: <20160805184656.GA463@starla> User-Agent: Alpine 2.20 (DEB 67 2015-01-07) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Provags-ID: V03:K0:nEro38qv55qbUP/0H74O542DLdadlMQKP4xpGhF+Z1Josmw/1di GqxnVIISGfoWk6Z3JXHPHChPHRhajG/qv0ovi5niuupQkYixBTP9fd5kQUaNvsg+m09LikK c0e0xhQRYLeqcqRxNz4MjFNFdXLPGyvakUOBflYnuQS4Hk+A3nRFrZXWs6YBTT6MCAc0N8+ oOh/pjs7ROfzzS/Aqyu3A== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V01:K0:xPpMhSjxmJQ=:L4M/GiHBCX/qkUwrJny1ee /vUvJ05JdbEfo2UsjHc+BviQCdVmOLGWCMCy/vhIgr8ry+d+tuF9YbrrvWJ00D8x2+eqB6k3H D641Dp4vDvQehAEv1sp+bPanmJMppWVe1hn5sLGZm+nOs1EERMC2lR5WDQjRY37wcQVSLB0Dh ESxdS+ADE1hGyv1QHL/TVpqowmF0IT1U6mI5hqdVINW/FwilscJSlDbkGPRuL9L5AXaS4YkiT kq6R1mWOVuspuhoWlDbF1zK6H3RojD32IsYpVtBDciZkoA0ETjxtOHLA1ABRfBEMj2VNiNNiZ pHPOZtvm91o8FJv37J/EiYZmlBgJhIeZufLuulIEFICVZ61gkEzIXYIACjRHNp5QjdlOTIKHI n08CYhE+qHw2ValAZ9nzOlsi1wYx9B1RBt2QKuclocWZ/25vTDUDbvjmWrl4KQy8hcZ0qe+XJ efmi37MtE2165TDxVisid7mxf8BMYyMsXM0qkr2vvfUL9WOOOmP5zloEdJcNUaLEGdb+GrM7q 0ah/GmZ1QTm3yExut0QiXhJFfUyFGFO33IbWHOTtHM+R3WazJ/N2X0GlSIpO8FqhsI2fx76d1 DOyIvBS1jhGwmIaq6V7u3Nu24tWoANMciqWUd/e/Hv/scsmoVLm0Qs/xTDQcgb1WVFAaTldAX nV965yOEH/i80ZUWXmtU10c6Rb0lDXrS+oo00+vgUIK+B9DiW/lMMC/RT/JEPXaAwB3LRoQdI n8qQKIa29Qa8/3o71duhTt6ibk3Chd34SBAkN/Gk20jW+T7ntSruxt/IOjhhKbZqyci4rxOL9 Q57WEgw Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Hi Eric, On Fri, 5 Aug 2016, Eric Wong wrote: > Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > On Thu, 4 Aug 2016, Stefan Beller wrote: > > > git send-email/format-patch recently learned to include a base commit > > > > You may have noticed that my mail-patch-series.sh-generated code > > submissions contain that base commit. But they still do not contain the > > SHA-1s of my local commits corresponding to the patches, and even if they > > did, the replies with suggested edits would most likely have lost said > > information. > > > > I also hate to break it to you that git-send-email is not going to be part > > of any solution. > > I think it ought to be. Some reasons I like emailing patches are: > > [...] What I said is that *git-send-email* is not going to be part of any solution. Note that I said *git-send-email*, not "emailing patches". What many people on this list forget is that few email users *ever* touch their email configuration. Asking them to figure out their SMTP settings and then to make git-send-email work is, uhm, quite a bit unrealistic. Ciao, Dscho