From: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Cc: libvir-list@redhat.com
Subject: git send-email should not allow 'y' for in-reply-to
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2013 09:39:06 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <50F0402A.1000108@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50EFD066.60501@redhat.com>
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[raising this UI wart to the git list]
On 01/11/2013 01:42 AM, Peter Krempa wrote:
> On 01/11/13 07:31, Chunyan Liu wrote:
>> This patch series is to...
[snip]
>
> Please don't answer "y" when git send email shows the following prompt:
>
> "Message-ID to be used as In-Reply-To for the first email?"
>
> you should respond with a message ID there. Unfortunately we have a
> growing thread that contains submissions with this mistake.
Anyone willing to patch upstream 'git send-email' to reject a simple 'y'
rather than blindly sending a bad messageID for the in-reply-to field,
to help future users avoid this mistake? Obviously, it won't help until
the patch eventually percolates into distros, so it would be a few more
months before we see the benefits, but down the road it will prevent
confusing threads.
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Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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[not found] <1357885869-20815-1-git-send-email-cyliu@suse.com>
[not found] ` <50EFD066.60501@redhat.com>
2013-01-11 16:39 ` Eric Blake [this message]
2013-01-11 16:47 ` git send-email should not allow 'y' for in-reply-to Jeff King
2013-01-11 17:51 ` Eric Blake
2013-01-11 18:43 ` Hilco Wijbenga
2013-01-11 18:54 ` Jeff King
2013-02-24 9:03 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-01-11 20:13 Matt Seitz (matseitz)
2013-01-11 21:23 ` Jeff King
2013-01-11 21:53 ` Antoine Pelisse
2013-01-11 22:18 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-01-11 22:42 ` Antoine Pelisse
2013-01-11 23:54 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-01-12 1:02 ` Ben Aveling
2013-01-12 2:56 ` Junio C Hamano
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