On Sun, Mar 25, 2018 at 2:28 PM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <ava...@gmail.com> wrote: > The earlier change to add this option described the problem this > option is trying to solve. > > This turns it on by default with a value of 1 second, which'll > hopefully solve it, and if not user reports as well as the > X-Mailer-Send-Delay header should help debug it. > [...] > Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <ava...@gmail.com> > --- > diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt > @@ -3070,7 +3070,18 @@ sendemail.smtpReloginDelay:: > sendemail.smtpSendDelay:: > Seconds wait in between message sending before sending another > - message. Set it to 0 to impose no extra delay, defaults to 0. > + message. Set it to 0 to impose no extra delay, defaults to 1 > + to wait 1 second. > ++ > +The reason for imposing a default delay is because certain popular > +E-Mail clients such as Google's GMail completely ignore the "Date" > +header, which format-patch is careful to set such that the patches > +will be displayed in order, and instead sort by the time the E-mail > +was received.
A minor point: Are you sure that it's git-format-patch that's being careful about arranging Date: to display in the desired order, and not git-send-email? Looking at old patches I still have hanging around which were created with git-format-patch, I see the Date: headers are wildly out of order, presumably because the date is taken from Author-Date: and the patches were heavily rebased.
