From: "Drew DeVault" <drew@ddevault•org>
To: "Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox•com>
Cc: "Remo Senekowitsch" <remo@buenzli•dev>, <git@vger•kernel.org>,
"Martin von Zweigbergk" <martinvonz@google•com>,
"Patrick Steinhardt" <ps@pks•im>,
"Andy Koppe" <andy.koppe@gmail•com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] pretty: add X-Change-ID to mail formats
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2025 10:52:14 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <DC7Z7YVT66NC.3RUJ7HXX2HSLW@ddevault.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqq4iu17b1y.fsf@gitster.g>
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On Thu Aug 21, 2025 at 2:50 AM CEST, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> For a topic that is older than 6 weeks, I am afraid that is a losing
> strategy. People who might have cared about the topic said all they
> wanted to say, new people are less likely to discover the topic than
> it was fresh, and unless you make an action (e.g., posting the "next
> patch version" you mentioned in [*1*]), it is highly unlikely for
> anything to happen while you are passive. Even a small update that
> addresses all the little feedback would serve as a "ping" to reignite
> interests.
>
> You seem to have liked the approach to generalize and encode all the
> commit object headers (except for of course the object name and
> author and committer ident, which already have place to be in the
> format-patch output) on an e-mail header in [*2*]. That should be
> sufficient for a small update that tries to reignite interests.
Oh, of course. For some reason I had had the notion that I had already
written a v3 based on this feedback and it was awaiting further
comments. But in fact I have done no such thing. I'll put this back on
my todo list and get a v3 out in the foreseeable future.
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-08-21 8:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-07-03 11:29 [PATCH v2 1/2] pretty: add X-Change-ID to mail formats Drew DeVault
2025-07-03 11:29 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] am: import X-Change-ID from email headers Drew DeVault
2025-07-06 3:37 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] pretty: add X-Change-ID to mail formats Jeff King
2025-07-06 10:46 ` Drew DeVault
2025-07-06 6:20 ` Aditya Garg
2025-07-06 10:41 ` Drew DeVault
2025-07-07 1:30 ` Junio C Hamano
2025-07-07 5:53 ` Junio C Hamano
2025-07-07 6:57 ` Martin von Zweigbergk
2025-07-07 6:59 ` Martin von Zweigbergk
2025-07-07 12:40 ` Junio C Hamano
2025-07-07 7:12 ` Drew DeVault
2025-07-07 7:09 ` Drew DeVault
2025-08-19 17:45 ` Remo Senekowitsch
2025-08-20 7:29 ` Drew DeVault
2025-08-21 0:50 ` Junio C Hamano
2025-08-21 8:52 ` Drew DeVault [this message]
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