Getting the right root mail of the thread

[Felipe Contreras]

On Sat, Nov 2, 2013 at 8:58 AM, Jani Nikula <jani at nikula.org> wrote:
> On Sat, 02 Nov 2013, Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sat, Nov 2, 2013 at 7:50 AM, Jani Nikula <jani at nikula.org> wrote:
>>> On Sat, 02 Nov 2013, Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>> I think there should be a way to get the root mail of a thread,
>>>> irrespective of the search order.
>>>
>>> Largely agreed. It's just that nobody's gotten around to doing this
>>> yet. At the cli level I think the consensus is that the structured
>>> (sexp/json) output format should contain multiple (or all) subjects.
>>
>> What about the default? (--format=text). What about user-interfaces
>> that must display a summary of a thread?
>
> To be honest, we haven't had much interest in adding new content or
> features to the text output formats. It's just much easier to do this in
> a backwards compatible way in the structured output formats, for which
> we also have the format versioning. The emacs ui uses the sexp format
> for the thread summaries.

How is this any better?

(:thread "000000000000826a" :timestamp 1383396519 :date_relative
"Yest. 06:48" :matched 45 :total 45 :authors "Felipe Contreras"
:subject "[PATCH/TEST 44/44] request-pull: rewrite to C" :tags ("sent"
"to-me"))

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Felipe Contreras