Most users on the Git mailing list prefers to use of shallow threads, but this preference was not documented. This commit adds a blurb about how to configure this globally via `git config`. Signed-off-by: Stan Hu <stanhu@xxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/MyFirstContribution.txt | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/MyFirstContribution.txt b/Documentation/MyFirstContribution.txt index 7cfed60c2e..3ac7455b1d 100644 --- a/Documentation/MyFirstContribution.txt +++ b/Documentation/MyFirstContribution.txt @@ -1004,6 +1004,17 @@ determine the right way to configure it to use your SMTP server; again, as this configuration can change significantly based on your system and email setup, it is out of scope for the context of this tutorial. +[[configure-shallow-threads]] +=== Configuring shallow threads for `git format-patch` + +It is common practice on the Git mailing list to use "shallow" threads, +where every mail is a reply to the first mail of the series. You can +configure the default threading style of `git format-patch` via: + +----- +$ git config format.thread shallow +---- + [[format-patch]] === Preparing Initial Patchset -- 2.42.0
