On Fri, Sep 03, 2021 at 08:14:30AM -0700, Nathan Chancellor wrote:
For the record, the documentation for sending patches has the "Explicit In-Reply-To headers" section, which frowns on doing this for multi-patch series but never mentions this for single patches. I have never had a maintainer complain about me doing this in the over three years that I
I don't *mind*, there's just a chance I won't notice a patch that appears in the middle of a thread which submitters tend to mind - the issue is that I'm blissfully unaware. It was more that you were doing the exact same thing again in response to it being explicitly identified as an issue.
changelog section. Maybe the documentation could be updated to frown upon adding In-Reply-To headers to new versions of patches period? I can draft up a patch to clarify that.
Not everyone has a process which causes issues here (and even for me I'd only notice if the old thread was still in my inbox), but I certainly wouldn't be against it. Note that if you're trying to make everything super rules based you also need to cover the case of people trying to incrementally fix a series by sending new versions of patches in the middle of it which is an even worse mess.