From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.8 required=3.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS,URIBL_BLOCKED shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by dcvr.yhbt.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7D901F66E for ; Thu, 27 Aug 2020 23:25:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1727909AbgH0XXo (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Aug 2020 19:23:44 -0400 Received: from pb-smtp2.pobox.com ([64.147.108.71]:63177 "EHLO pb-smtp2.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1727834AbgH0XXn (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Aug 2020 19:23:43 -0400 Received: from pb-smtp2.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by pb-smtp2.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 895C775CD0; Thu, 27 Aug 2020 19:23:41 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from junio@pobox.com) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; s=sasl; bh=PpIjePlyFFlABasOuMXmSDLB6Hg=; b=auwqTm PHUedKdkdqoyCuNIXladCjrEtGIYzKHTC7leUfb4eLNooCL+t1JXsUFrwpP0CL9q vmMsW2OraSReHhwYkyls7Jgk/AkjwshUU4oHjbv+gDs72bL08AvK6e6/S/HVQDYd q3JTpVSV7GKSNJf6uDQI+j+mpwvImFHaT5h7Y= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; q=dns; s=sasl; b=W1vep2aqSNPOqyijEUpot3lwYoSLEdbV k4KBsRBFr/8m08JoS7HL++LMNZYX6y0ofOTQ25uQMZFHcr2nrt95bmEruVe8mSLr uW2v+x7MnVOgWyyXLC9NBEFjXqKsq+oF/ek8fsy5QpIgV0pK/nNlOt5tfDDaBsEC EWtwNdx7Elc= Received: from pb-smtp2.nyi.icgroup.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by pb-smtp2.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8222175CCF; Thu, 27 Aug 2020 19:23:41 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from junio@pobox.com) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [34.75.7.245]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pb-smtp2.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id F15B675CCE; Thu, 27 Aug 2020 19:23:40 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from junio@pobox.com) From: Junio C Hamano To: "Drew DeVault" Cc: Carlo Marcelo Arenas =?utf-8?Q?Bel=C3=B3n?= , Subject: Re: [PATCH] send-email: do not prompt for In-Reply-To References: Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2020 16:23:40 -0700 In-Reply-To: (Drew DeVault's message of "Thu, 27 Aug 2020 18:59:01 -0400") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 57A38FD4-E8BC-11EA-B17C-2F5D23BA3BAF-77302942!pb-smtp2.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org "Drew DeVault" writes: > On Thu Aug 27, 2020 at 6:57 PM EDT, Junio C Hamano wrote: >> To help those who do not want to add this header, it would probably >> be more helpful to tell what to do when prompted (like "you can give >> an empty answer to tell the command that you are not responding to >> any message"). > > I don't like this solution. We should make it harder to do the wrong > thing, and easier to do the right thing. Carlo and I were discussing how best to describe the behaviour we have better to the users, which is unrelated to any code change that would be required to "make it harder make it easier." We need to do so to help users in the meantime, before any behaviour change (which need to happen over several releases, as outlined earlier) happens.