Struggling with git (format-patch & send-email)

[Greg KH]

On Wed, Mar 08, 2017 at 11:05:35PM +0530, Prasant J wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I want to send my 2 commits as patches in chain reply to my first
> email. My first email will have multiple files as attachment. How can
> I achieve it?
> 
> first email subject: [mystring] Feature 01
> patch 01:                  |_ [mystring] [PATCH 01/02] My commit msg 1
> patch 02:                    |_ [mystring] [PATCH 02/02] My commit msg 2
> 
> 
> My git send-email is working, but I want to achieve the above desired
> outcome which I'm unable to.
> 
> I have tried so many combinations of git format-patch and send-email
> over the past days but I'm unable to get the above outcome.
> 
> One combination that was close to working:
> => git format-patch -2 --numbered --start-number 01 -o patch-dir --thread
> => git send-email --in-reply-to="Message-Id" --to user at gmail.com
> --chain-reply-to --suppress-cc=self patch-dir/*
> 
> I'm trying to see the desired effect in my web gmail, but I do not see.

gmail does not show threading like this, you are going to have to use
another mail client that will show the threading properly, to be able to
see if you did it correctly or not.

good luck!

greg k-h