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Subject: Re: How to keep the In-Reply-To field in a patch with formail?
Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2016 17:26:19 -0500
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On Sat, Feb 13, 2016 at 11:10:40PM +0100, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
> 
> Pjotr Prins <pjotr.public12@thebird.nl> writes:
> 
> > Anyone know how to reating the In-Reply-To field when using formail?
> >
> >   cat mail.patch|formail -s mail -t -f -I "In-Reply-To: <20160213102825.GA19194@debian>"  
> >   Ignoring header field "Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2016 18:07:31 +0100"
> >   Ignoring header field "In-Reply-To: <20160213102825.GA19194@debian>"  
> >
> > How you you keep patches on the same thread?
> 
> I haven’t used “formail” before, but when generating emails with an
> external programme I usually don’t allow it to send the email directly.
> Instead I load it up in Emacs message-mode and manually add an
> In-Reply-To header.

Another option for organizing patches is to use the '--thread=' argument
to git-format-patch and git-send-email. I use '--thread=shallow'.