Re: [RFC] suggestion [PATCH N/M] subject lines

[Stefan Richter]

Jeff Anderson-Lee wrote:
> Reading the mailing list with a non-threads compatible 
> mail client agent would be made much easier if the 
> convention for subject lines for multi-part patches was 
> changed to the following:
> 
> 	patch set name [PATCH N/M] patch summary
> 
> Then sorting by subject would group all patches for the
> Same patch set together.

A workaround is to sort by (1.) author + (2.) date. Should help in many
cases.

> I don't know if these Subject lines are hand generated, or if there
> is software involved that would have to me modified for generating
> and/or parsing them.

All of it is true.
-- 
Stefan Richter
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