On Thu, 12 Nov 2015, Lukas Wunner <lukas@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I use msmtp instead of git send-email, which preserves the Date-header. Any particular reason not to use git send-email? You can configure it to use a sendmail-like program instead of a server, and actually that's the default. If you have msmtp installed as sendmail (for example msmtp-mta package does this on Debian) git send-email will use that out of the box. FWIW this is exactly what I do. > When I edit commits, git commit --amend updates the commit date but not > the author date. > > That's why you see these ancient timestamps. > > If you find that annoying I'll see to it that I modify the author date > manually before sending out a new series. (At least in commits of my own. > I try to avoid tampering with other people's commits.) It's just that my mail client uses the Date: header for sorting, and the old ones tend to get buried. It's disadvantageous to you to use old dates. ;) >> For future reference, please consider posting new versions of series as >> new threads. This one got pretty messy in the end, with so many >> different versions. > > Daniel asked me to submit a patch "in-reply the previous version" in > <20150922091757.GZ3383@phenom.ffwll.local> and I adhered to that request > also when sending a new version of an entire series. In that case I'll > *not* submit in-reply-to in the future, got that. You'll probably get a different reply from everyone you ask. ;) My rule of thumb is that if you update individual patches (whether in a series or not), send them in-reply to the previous version. Each patch in-reply to its preceding version in the series. If you update more than about half the patches in a series, it's perhaps less confusing to send a new series with no in-reply-to. (Oh, and this contradicts with the example in git send-email man page.) BR, Jani. -- Jani Nikula, Intel Open Source Technology Center _______________________________________________ Intel-gfx mailing list Intel-gfx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/intel-gfx
