[RFC] 'bzr-email' using revision_id for threading

[Robert Collins]

On Tue, 2008-03-18 at 15:35 +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> Robert Collins writes:
> 
>  > As I read the spec, if both launchpad, you, and I all generate an
>  > announce email for a given revid, we must use unique message ids.
> 
> Spec doesn't say that.  For example, if the "important content" of the
> message is that (a) a new commit has been added and (b) it can be
> found in "the usual places" with the given revid, and all the users
> agree that is true, it's ok to have multiple textually different
> messages with the same Message-ID.

Perhaps a more interesting question then, is:
What will mail clients do with multiple messages with the same message-id.

> One way to think about it is that any text you personally add will be
> treated like those annoying prefixes before the body parts of a MIME
> message.

Well, commit messages can be dramatically different - 'st', full diffs,
semantic diffs, htmlised or not, etc. I'm not sure users will appreciate
the differences.

-Rob
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