Re: [PATCH] include/asm-arm/: Spelling fixes

On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 06:05:58PM -0500, Jeff King wrote:

quoted

I wonder if stripping existing "Message-Id:" away just like we strip
away "Date:" from @xh would be a much saner fix.

That is definitely wrong if we expect to re-use the in-reply-to and
references headers that already exist (though obviously we could strip
out all three of those headers and re-add our own).

I don't have a strong opinion. I never use git-send-email myself, but
was just trying to fix a reported bug.

Actually, I don't think stripping the message-id is ever the right
thing. The user put it in there for some purpose, and "ours not to
reason why" (ours but to do and die). IOW, it is not possible for us to
know what we are breaking by changing the message-id. It could simply be
the reply-to header in the following messages, or it could be the
reply-to in some message we have not and will not ever see.

Even if we assume git-send-email only ever gets the unmunged output of
git-format-patch, we do not necessarily know it has been fed all of the
patches during a single run.

-Peff