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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-send-email.txt | 25 | ||||
| -rwxr-xr-x | git-send-email.perl | 3 | ||||
| -rwxr-xr-x | t/t9001-send-email.sh | 43 |
3 files changed, 65 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-send-email.txt b/Documentation/git-send-email.txt index 05904e0e7..ebc024ae3 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-send-email.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-send-email.txt @@ -82,11 +82,26 @@ See the CONFIGURATION section for 'sendemail.multiedit'. set, as returned by "git var -l". --in-reply-to=<identifier>:: - Specify the contents of the first In-Reply-To header. - Subsequent emails will refer to the previous email - instead of this if --chain-reply-to is set. - Only necessary if --compose is also set. If --compose - is not set, this will be prompted for. + Make the first mail (or all the mails with `--no-thread`) appear as a + reply to the given Message-Id, which avoids breaking threads to + provide a new patch series. + The second and subsequent emails will be sent as replies according to + the `--[no]-chain-reply-to` setting. ++ +So for example when `--thread` and `--no-chain-reply-to` are specified, the +second and subsequent patches will be replies to the first one like in the +illustration below where `[PATCH v2 0/3]` is in reply to `[PATCH 0/2]`: ++ + [PATCH 0/2] Here is what I did... + [PATCH 1/2] Clean up and tests + [PATCH 2/2] Implementation + [PATCH v2 0/3] Here is a reroll + [PATCH v2 1/3] Clean up + [PATCH v2 2/3] New tests + [PATCH v2 3/3] Implementation ++ +Only necessary if --compose is also set. If --compose +is not set, this will be prompted for. --subject=<string>:: Specify the initial subject of the email thread. diff --git a/git-send-email.perl b/git-send-email.perl index 6e2d79ac6..76565de2e 100755 --- a/git-send-email.perl +++ b/git-send-email.perl @@ -1319,7 +1319,8 @@ foreach my $t (@files) { # set up for the next message if ($thread && $message_was_sent && - (chain_reply_to() || !defined $reply_to || length($reply_to) == 0)) { + (chain_reply_to() || !defined $reply_to || length($reply_to) == 0 || + $message_num == 1)) { $reply_to = $message_id; if (length $references > 0) { $references .= "\n $message_id"; diff --git a/t/t9001-send-email.sh b/t/t9001-send-email.sh index d1ba25205..5e4831801 100755 --- a/t/t9001-send-email.sh +++ b/t/t9001-send-email.sh @@ -313,6 +313,49 @@ test_expect_success $PREREQ 'Valid In-Reply-To when prompting' ' ! grep "^In-Reply-To: < *>" msgtxt1 ' +test_expect_success $PREREQ 'In-Reply-To without --chain-reply-to' ' + clean_fake_sendmail && + echo "<unique-message-id@example.com>" >expect && + git send-email \ + --from="Example <nobody@example.com>" \ + --to=nobody@example.com \ + --no-chain-reply-to \ + --in-reply-to="$(cat expect)" \ + --smtp-server="$(pwd)/fake.sendmail" \ + $patches $patches $patches \ + 2>errors && + # The first message is a reply to --in-reply-to + sed -n -e "s/^In-Reply-To: *\(.*\)/\1/p" msgtxt1 >actual && + test_cmp expect actual && + # Second and subsequent messages are replies to the first one + sed -n -e "s/^Message-Id: *\(.*\)/\1/p" msgtxt1 >expect && + sed -n -e "s/^In-Reply-To: *\(.*\)/\1/p" msgtxt2 >actual && + test_cmp expect actual && + sed -n -e "s/^In-Reply-To: *\(.*\)/\1/p" msgtxt3 >actual && + test_cmp expect actual +' + +test_expect_success $PREREQ 'In-Reply-To with --chain-reply-to' ' + clean_fake_sendmail && + echo "<unique-message-id@example.com>" >expect && + git send-email \ + --from="Example <nobody@example.com>" \ + --to=nobody@example.com \ + --chain-reply-to \ + --in-reply-to="$(cat expect)" \ + --smtp-server="$(pwd)/fake.sendmail" \ + $patches $patches $patches \ + 2>errors && + sed -n -e "s/^In-Reply-To: *\(.*\)/\1/p" msgtxt1 >actual && + test_cmp expect actual && + sed -n -e "s/^Message-Id: *\(.*\)/\1/p" msgtxt1 >expect && + sed -n -e "s/^In-Reply-To: *\(.*\)/\1/p" msgtxt2 >actual && + test_cmp expect actual && + sed -n -e "s/^Message-Id: *\(.*\)/\1/p" msgtxt2 >expect && + sed -n -e "s/^In-Reply-To: *\(.*\)/\1/p" msgtxt3 >actual && + test_cmp expect actual +' + test_expect_success $PREREQ 'setup fake editor' ' (echo "#!$SHELL_PATH" && echo "echo fake edit >>\"\$1\"" |