Re: Getting the right root mail of the thread

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+From: Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org>\r
+To: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>\r
+Subject: Re: Getting the right root mail of the thread\r
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+Date: Sun, 03 Nov 2013 22:17:53 +0200\r
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+On Sun, 03 Nov 2013, Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> wrote:\r
+> On Sat, Nov 2, 2013 at 8:58 AM, Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org> wrote:\r
+>> On Sat, 02 Nov 2013, Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> wrote:\r
+>>> On Sat, Nov 2, 2013 at 7:50 AM, Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org> wrote:\r
+>>>> On Sat, 02 Nov 2013, Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> wrote:\r
+>>>\r
+>>>>> I think there should be a way to get the root mail of a thread,\r
+>>>>> irrespective of the search order.\r
+>>>>\r
+>>>> Largely agreed. It's just that nobody's gotten around to doing this\r
+>>>> yet. At the cli level I think the consensus is that the structured\r
+>>>> (sexp/json) output format should contain multiple (or all) subjects.\r
+>>>\r
+>>> What about the default? (--format=text). What about user-interfaces\r
+>>> that must display a summary of a thread?\r
+>>\r
+>> To be honest, we haven't had much interest in adding new content or\r
+>> features to the text output formats. It's just much easier to do this in\r
+>> a backwards compatible way in the structured output formats, for which\r
+>> we also have the format versioning. The emacs ui uses the sexp format\r
+>> for the thread summaries.\r
+>\r
+> How is this any better?\r
+>\r
+> (:thread "000000000000826a" :timestamp 1383396519 :date_relative\r
+> "Yest. 06:48" :matched 45 :total 45 :authors "Felipe Contreras"\r
+> :subject "[PATCH/TEST 44/44] request-pull: rewrite to C" :tags ("sent"\r
+> "to-me"))\r
+\r
+I made no claims it would contain more or better information *now*. But\r
+if someone were to add new things, the structured output is where it\r
+would likely be added. We could add :subject_first, :subject_oldest, or\r
+whatever *in addition* to :subject.\r
+\r
+BR,\r
+Jani.\r
+\r