On Thu, Jun 03, 2010 at 12:27:04AM -0400, Rich Lane wrote: > I'm not yet convinced that supporting multiple parents is worth > the complexity. How often do you get mails like this? I don't get mails with multiple in-reply-tos, but I send them ;). I *do* get mails with in-text references to multiple messages. For some mailing lists that I care about (be-devel), I go through and adjust in-reply-to so that it matches the in-text references. I think such graphs would be a nice interface to mailing lists, which gain members not familiar with the lists history. Browsing a curated list, finding the critical background for a particular message would be trivial. > What mail clients have UI for replying to multiple messages? In Mutt, you can tag a bunch of messages, and then ;g to reply-to-all the tagged messages at once. I started doing this to get the previous text from all the messages included in my reply, so I expect this sort of thing does occur occasionally in the wild. > I'd have to fake up some messages to actually see the full DAG > support in action, so could you post a screenshot of your code > viewing a thread where the new display helps? Attached is a small graph showing two related threads about bzr+windows. The multiparent replies allow responses like Matt's, "we discussed this last year" message. -- This email may be signed or encrypted with GPG (http://www.gnupg.org). The GPG signature (if present) will be attached as 'signature.asc'. For more information, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Good_Privacy My public key is at http://www.physics.drexel.edu/~wking/pubkey.txt
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