On Tue, May 07, 2013 at 10:02:22AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > So you seem to have blasted this series out with that automated > script, so they all got sent basically at the same timestamp, and they > are in the wrong order in my mailbox because email isn't that ordered.
Interesting. What I received here from the mailing list from Arnd was: Date: Tue, 7 May 2013 18:02:09 +0200 Subject: [GIT PULL] ARM: Third batch of arm-soc changes for 3.10 Date: Tue, 7 May 2013 18:02:10 +0200 Subject: [GIT PULL] ARM: arm-soc platform updates for 3.10, part 2 Date: Tue, 7 May 2013 18:02:11 +0200 Subject: [GIT PULL] ARM: arm-soc platform updates for 3.10, part 3 Date: Tue, 7 May 2013 18:02:12 +0200 Subject: [GIT PULL] ARM: arm-soc device tree changes, part 2 Date: Tue, 7 May 2013 18:02:13 +0200 Subject: [GIT PULL] ARM: arm-soc: late cleanups Date: Tue, 7 May 2013 18:02:14 +0200 Subject: [GIT PULL] ARM: arm-soc: late Exynos multiplatform changes So they do each have a different timestamp, and do come out right if sorted by date-sent. Maybe one second is not long enough for gmail to sort by date-sent? Sure, allowing a longer delay reduces the possibility of stuff being reordered by MTAs, but it will never totally eliminate that reordering - it just makes it less likely. FWIR, gmail orders messages by order-of-reception only, not by date-anything, which makes using delays to try to anticipate the order of reception quite fruitless. And I suspect gmail doesn't show you seconds (let alone give you Date: header.) So I don't think that asking people to play games with delays between consecutive messages is going to work all that well. The only sure way would be to have it clearly marked in the subject line, maybe in a similar way to how we mark patches using a [GIT PULL N/M] thing. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/