From: Samuel GROOT <samuel.groot@grenoble-inp.org>
Date: Tue, 24 May 2016 12:43:47 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC-PATCH 1/2] send-email: new option to quote an email and reply to
Message-ID: <0285f901-a1d1-2715-4207-68c7d103da5e@grenoble-inp.org>
In-Reply-To: <20160523195504.GA8957@dcvr.yhbt.net>



On 05/23/2016 09:55 PM, Eric Wong wrote:
> Tom Russello <tom.russello@grenoble-inp.org> wrote:
>> This new option takes an email message file, parses it, fills the "To",
>> "Subject" and "Cc" fields appropriately and quote the message.
>> This option involves the `--compose` mode to edit the cover letter quoting the
>> given email.
>
> Cool!  There should probably be some help text to encourage
> trimming down the quoted text to only relevant portions.

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`.