.</p>
</dd>
<dt class="hdlist1">--in-reply-to=&lt;identifier&gt;</dt>
<dd>
<p>Make the first mail (or all the mails with <code>--no-thread</code>) appear as a
reply to the given Message-Id, which avoids breaking threads to
provide a new patch series.
The second and subsequent emails will be sent as replies according to
the <code>--[no]-chain-reply-to</code> setting.</p>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>So for example when <code>--thread</code> and <code>--no-chain-reply-to</code> are specified, the
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