From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tom Russello Subject: Re: [RFC-PATCH 1/2] send-email: new option to quote an email and reply to Date: Wed, 25 May 2016 02:04:46 +0200 Message-ID: <9afb4e1e-9e60-79eb-c90f-77b2eb55d1aa@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> <0285f901-a1d1-2715-4207-68c7d103da5e@grenoble-inp.org> <20160524223005.GB23162@pug> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Matthieu Moy , Samuel GROOT To: Eric Wong , git@vger.kernel.org, erwan.mathoniere@grenoble-inp.org, Jordan DE GEA X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed May 25 02:05:13 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 1b5MJz-0000ON-I9 for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Wed, 25 May 2016 02:05:11 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932605AbcEYAEx (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 May 2016 20:04:53 -0400 Received: from zm-smtpout-2.grenet.fr ([130.190.244.98]:42936 "EHLO zm-smtpout-2.grenet.fr" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932478AbcEYAEw (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 May 2016 20:04:52 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zm-smtpout-2.grenet.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 923A320FB; Wed, 25 May 2016 02:04:48 +0200 (CEST) Received: from zm-smtpout-2.grenet.fr ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zm-smtpout-2.grenet.fr [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id eTSPiaGKy2Zp; Wed, 25 May 2016 02:04:48 +0200 (CEST) Received: from zm-smtpauth-2.grenet.fr (zm-smtpauth-2.grenet.fr [130.190.244.123]) by zm-smtpout-2.grenet.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80F1420F4; Wed, 25 May 2016 02:04:48 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zm-smtpauth-2.grenet.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A7942077; Wed, 25 May 2016 02:04:48 +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 ezwBJ_xrTGZ0; Wed, 25 May 2016 02:04:48 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [192.168.0.19] (1.23.6.84.rev.sfr.net [84.6.23.1]) by zm-smtpauth-2.grenet.fr (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 983C12066; Wed, 25 May 2016 02:04:47 +0200 (CEST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.1.0 In-Reply-To: <20160524223005.GB23162@pug> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On 05/25/16 00:30, Aaron Schrab wrote: > At 14:49 +0200 24 May 2016, Matthieu Moy > wrote: >> Samuel GROOT 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. Furthermore, it is a good way to avoid very long messages due to unnecessary parts quoted. Therefore, we thought about a request like "Please, trim down irrelevant sections in the quoted message to keep your email concise"