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Subject: Re: [PATCH] send-email: do not prompt for In-Reply-To
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        "Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>
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On Thu Aug 27, 2020 at 9:44 PM EDT, Raymond E. Pasco wrote:
> Anyway, it's worth noting that, because the prompts *do* exist,
> half-baked as they are, it's not really safe to assume that nobody sees
> them. There might be a sizable population out there never specifying
> "--to" because they know they'll be prompted for it.

I hardly ever use --to for one-off patches or repositories which I'm not
regularly contributing to, and I expect that prompt. In-Reply-To has a
much less compelling argument, though, as Junio pointed out, given that
it's often not necessary or desirable, whereas for "to", every email has
to have at least one recipient to make sense.