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At 14:49 +0200 24 May 2016, Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr> wrote:
>Samuel GROOT <samuel.groot@grenoble-inp.org> writes:
>
>> 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.

In an ideal world that would be true.  But in the real world I think 
evidence of many messages to this mailing list containing full quotes 
suggests it might be helpful. I'd actually argue that the message be 
more forceful, making it a suggestion/request to trim rather than simply 
telling the user that it's allowed.