Dear Marcel Ziswiler,
In message 1252443768.5386.82.camel@com-21 you wrote:
Sorry about that, my understanding was to post new versions of a patch as a new thread. Is that not so?
No, on contrary. New versions of a patch should always make sure to thread correctly to the old version(s). It seems that preferences here are a matter of taste - my personal preference is to link to the preceeding version of the patch, but most others seem to prefer to link to the first version always.
What exactly is that references header you are talking about?
It's a standard Mail header like this one:
| In-reply-to: 1251879636-9115-1-git-send-email-wd@denx.de | References: 1251879636-9115-1-git-send-email-wd@denx.de
when enables MUAs to display a "threaded view", i. e. you can see the whole history of previous patch submissions, review comments, etc. and thus for example check easily if the new version incorporates all requested changes.
When you use "git send-email" to submit your patches, it will (in standard configuration) ask you:
Message-ID to be used as In-Reply-To for the first email?
Here you can simply enter the message ID of the original posting you are referring to ("1251879636-9115-1-git-send-email-wd@denx.de") in the example above.
Note that the message ID of a posting is also a very convenient method to look it up in the gmane archives: just append the message ID to the URL "http://mid.gmane.org/" - i. e. try:
http://mid.gmane.org/1251879636-9115-1-git-send-email-wd@denx.de
Then click on the link in the "Subject: line to see the whole thread.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk