> Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> writes:
>
> > The following might be a bug in git-send-email (git maintainers Cc'ed
> > and KVM list removed from Cc):
> >
> > Patch 54 got the same Message-Id as patch 61 and patch 89 got the same
> > Message-Id as patch 104.
> > ...
> > The emails are:
> >
http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=119002061330270&w=2
> >
http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=119002059626434&w=2
> >
http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=119002060011801&w=2
> >
http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=119002060318915&w=2
>
> The old code generated rand(4200) for each message and appended
> it to the timestamp. I do not know where the original author
> got 4200 from, but I think if you send many messages within a
> single second it is possible to get collisions.
>
> I guess something like this patch is an improvement? It
> generates a single prefix from timestamp and random, and appends
> a number that is incremented for each message.