From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Samuel GROOT Subject: Re: [RFC-PATCH 1/2] send-email: new option to quote an email and reply to Date: Tue, 24 May 2016 14:43:47 +0200 Message-ID: <0285f901-a1d1-2715-4207-68c7d103da5e@grenoble-inp.org> References: <1464031829-6107-1-git-send-email-tom.russello@grenoble-inp.org> <1464031829-6107-2-git-send-email-tom.russello@grenoble-inp.org> <20160523195504.GA8957@dcvr.yhbt.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr, erwan.mathoniere@grenoble-inp.org, Jordan DE GEA To: Eric Wong , Tom Russello X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue May 24 14:43:56 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1b5Bgi-00057v-FL for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Tue, 24 May 2016 14:43:56 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755365AbcEXMnw (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 May 2016 08:43:52 -0400 Received: from zm-smtpout-1.grenet.fr ([130.190.244.97]:44573 "EHLO zm-smtpout-1.grenet.fr" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754436AbcEXMnw (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 May 2016 08:43:52 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zm-smtpout-1.grenet.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id D167A24D7; Tue, 24 May 2016 14:43:47 +0200 (CEST) Received: from zm-smtpout-1.grenet.fr ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zm-smtpout-1.grenet.fr [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id R1iIvChe6USj; Tue, 24 May 2016 14:43:47 +0200 (CEST) Received: from zm-smtpauth-2.grenet.fr (zm-smtpauth-2.grenet.fr [130.190.244.123]) by zm-smtpout-1.grenet.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id C1DF52167; Tue, 24 May 2016 14:43:47 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zm-smtpauth-2.grenet.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB8D02077; Tue, 24 May 2016 14:43:47 +0200 (CEST) Received: from zm-smtpauth-2.grenet.fr ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zm-smtpauth-2.grenet.fr [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id rMc0bvMnu6Vp; Tue, 24 May 2016 14:43:47 +0200 (CEST) Received: from wificampus-030221.grenet.fr (wificampus-030221.grenet.fr [130.190.30.221]) by zm-smtpauth-2.grenet.fr (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 6EDE12066; Tue, 24 May 2016 14:43:47 +0200 (CEST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.0 In-Reply-To: <20160523195504.GA8957@dcvr.yhbt.net> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On 05/23/2016 09:55 PM, Eric Wong wrote: > Tom Russello wrote: >> This new option takes an email message file, parses it, fills the "To", >> "Subject" and "Cc" fields appropriately and quote the message. >> This option involves the `--compose` mode to edit the cover letter quoting the >> given email. > > Cool! There should probably be some help text to encourage > trimming down the quoted text to only relevant portions. What kind of help text would you want to see? Maybe something like this: GIT: Quoted message body below. GIT: Feel free to trim down the quoted text GIT: to only relevant portions. As "GIT:" portions are ignored when parsed by `git send-email`.