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> You should never have to directly work with message IDs if you're using git-send-email and letting your mail client handle replies. In certain cases, if you
by u801e 6y ago
> You should never have to directly work with message IDs if you're using git-send-email and letting your mail client handle replies.
In certain cases, if you want to include a patch in an email reply to an existing patch series (using the scissors delimiter), you would need to use git format-patch and send-email using the in-reply-to option so that the reply ends up in the correct place.
- ddevault 6y agoYeah, but I disrecommend doing this. Starting a new thread is usually better.
- u801e 6y agoBut the purpose of doing that is to provide a suggestion for a change in approach for a given patch. I don't think it would make much sense to start a new thread because you lose the association between the original approach and the modified approach. That said, I haven't seen this particular feature used in the years I've followed the git mailing list, so perhaps it's not commonly used.