Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2015 11:31:05 -0700
From: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
To: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@ezchip.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
        Gilad Ben Yossef <giladb@ezchip.com>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
        Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>, Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>,
        Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
        "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>,
        Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
        Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
        <linux-doc@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation/email-clients.txt: discuss In-Reply-To
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On Fri, 23 Oct 2015 12:13:01 -0400
Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@ezchip.com> wrote:

> +When manually adding In-Reply-To: headers to a patch (e.g., using `git
> +send email`), use common sense to associate the patch with previous
> +relevant discussion, e.g. link a bug fix to the email with the bug report.
> +For a multi-patch series, it is generally best to avoid using
> +In-Reply-To: to link to older versions of the series.  This way
> +multiple versions of the patch don't become an unmanageable forest of
> +references in email clients.  If a link is helpful, you can use an
> +"http://lkml.kernel.org/r/MESSAGEID" URL (e.g., in the cover email
> +text) to link to an earlier version of the patch series.

So this is sitting in my docs folder waiting to see if anybody else had
anything to say.  Nope.  I guess I'm not opposed to this addition, but
I'm not quite sure what problem is being solved.  Is there a plague of
inappropriate hand-crafted In-Reply-To headers out there that I've not
seen?

Beyond that, this seems like advice that is better put into
SubmittingPatches if we really want it.

Thanks,

jon
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