Re: [PATCH 00/15] Rework of references counter in Specs

[Víctor M. Jáquez L. <vjaquez igalia com>]

On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 09:41:45PM +0200, Juan A. Suarez Romero wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-07-19 at 20:53 +0200, Víctor M. Jáquez L. wrote:
> > Eh... AFAIK when you send a new version of a patch set, you don't
> > hijack the
> > thread id of the previous version. Instead you modify the subject
> > [PATCH v2
> > n/m]
> > 
> > see --subject-prefix in git-format-patch 
> 
> 
> Is that the standard way of doing it? Because I find more reasonable to
> send the patches as a reply, because this way all patches belonging to
> same feature are kept in the same thread, and thus it is easier to
> review the previous work and/or comments.

At least in the kernel development is how it's done. For example, check out
this kernel's patchwork:

https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-omap/list/

A thread represents a patch set as a unity.

vmjl