[PATCH 1 of 2 V2] patchbomb: includes series information in the header

[Angel Ezquerra]

On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 12:06 AM,  <pierre-yves.david at ens-lyon.org> wrote:
> # HG changeset patch
> # User Pierre-Yves David <pierre-yves.david at fb.com>
> # Date 1399355234 25200
> #      Mon May 05 22:47:14 2014 -0700
> # Node ID d689d1f81dd9365f48348ee544ed9fab97d8142f
> # Parent  0768cda8b5799dc803dc0ee27a832cd64e05f28a
> patchbomb: includes series information in the header
>
> We includes information about the series being patch bombed in all email. Two
> new headers are added:
>
> * X-Mercurial-Series-index: index of the patches in the series (starts at 1)
> * X-Mercurial-Series-total: The total number of patches in the series
>
> This information is available in the email subject line, but having them
> formalized in the header will helps automated tools to process patches send with
> modern mercurial.

I'd be neat if this could be done in such a way that regular email
clients (including gmail) were able to consider the whole series as a
single thread. Isn't there any standard header that can be used for
that (or in addition to these proposed new headers)?

Cheers,

Angel