Lemma 1: Any task, no matter how trivial, expands to at least three patches. Turns out there were tests, but they never worked. In any case it should now know how to properly format References, and also knows about deep and shallow threading. I formatted this series with git format-patch origin/master..t/thread-reply-to-cover \ --cover-letter --thread \ --in-reply-to='<200902170027.09406.trast@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>' Thomas Rast (4): format-patch: threading test reactivation format-patch: track several references format-patch: thread as reply to cover letter even with in-reply-to format-patch: support deep threading Documentation/config.txt | 10 ++ Documentation/git-format-patch.txt | 10 ++- builtin-log.c | 65 ++++++++-- log-tree.c | 11 +- revision.h | 2 +- t/t4014-format-patch.sh | 265 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------ 6 files changed, 308 insertions(+), 55 deletions(-) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html