On Mon, May 30, 2022 at 10:19:46PM +0200, Uwe Kleine-König wrote: > On Mon, May 30, 2022 at 03:29:48PM +0200, Mark Brown wrote: > > Please don't send new patches in reply to old patches or serieses, this > > makes it harder for both people and tools to understand what is going > > on - it can bury things in mailboxes and make it difficult to keep track > > of what current patches are, both for the new patches and the old ones. > The motivation to do that is that the thread for a patch that broke > something is the canonical place to look if someone already reported (or > even fixed) the problem before. Once something is applied and as time marches on that starts to get less and less helpful, searches for Fixes: are probably better there. > That b4 seems to fail to extract the patch is indeed unfortunate. For a > MUA I'd expect that it sorts threads after the last received mail, so > that part is only a matter of a sane mail reader configuration. The sorting really is a user workflow/preference thing - for example I find it helpful to sort by age of the thread to highlight new patches which might be simple to deal with before older threads with complicated discussions in them.
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