From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthieu Moy Subject: Re: [RFC-PATCH 1/2] send-email: new option to quote an email and reply to Date: Tue, 24 May 2016 14:49:23 +0200 Message-ID: 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> <0285f901-a1d1-2715-4207-68c7d103da5e@grenoble-inp.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Cc: Eric Wong , Tom Russello , git@vger.kernel.org, erwan.mathoniere@grenoble-inp.org, Jordan DE GEA To: Samuel GROOT X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue May 24 14:49:39 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 1b5BmE-0007SB-MO for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Tue, 24 May 2016 14:49:39 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755448AbcEXMta (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 May 2016 08:49:30 -0400 Received: from mx1.imag.fr ([129.88.30.5]:46984 "EHLO mx1.imag.fr" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752838AbcEXMta (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 May 2016 08:49:30 -0400 Received: from clopinette.imag.fr (clopinette.imag.fr [129.88.34.215]) by mx1.imag.fr (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id u4OCnLV1025592 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Tue, 24 May 2016 14:49:22 +0200 Received: from anie (anie.imag.fr [129.88.42.32]) by clopinette.imag.fr (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id u4OCnN7j021645; Tue, 24 May 2016 14:49:23 +0200 In-Reply-To: <0285f901-a1d1-2715-4207-68c7d103da5e@grenoble-inp.org> (Samuel GROOT's message of "Tue, 24 May 2016 14:43:47 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.0.1 (mx1.imag.fr [129.88.30.5]); Tue, 24 May 2016 14:49:22 +0200 (CEST) X-IMAG-MailScanner-Information: Please contact MI2S MIM for more information X-MailScanner-ID: u4OCnLV1025592 X-IMAG-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-IMAG-MailScanner-SpamCheck: X-IMAG-MailScanner-From: matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr MailScanner-NULL-Check: 1464698963.86913@GSqgD83b/XikvqDqSDDoaw Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Samuel GROOT writes: > 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`. That's an option, but in the context of email, I think these instructions are not necessary. -- Matthieu Moy http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/