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From: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
To: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
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Subject: Re: Search summaries by thread?
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Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I often use the https://public-inbox.org/git/ search facility.
> 
> A recent query https://public-inbox.org/git/?q=precious highlighted that it
> may be useful to have a search summary that also summarises by thread.

So, sorta like combining the subject-only threaded display of
landing page (e.g <https://public-inbox.org/git/>)

Or, perhaps in other words, similar to:
<https://public-inbox.org/git/?q=precious&x=t>
but with only the Subject/Date lines, and no message bodies.

> In this case it should greatly reduce the number of 'hits' because many
> belong to communal threads, e.g. the "mergetool: what to do about deleting
> precious files?" thread.
> 
> Is this something that could be considered?

Definitely.  I don't really like the way the search summary page
as-is, either.