From: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
Date: Tue, 24 May 2016 21:23:56 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC-PATCH 1/2] send-email: new option to quote an email and reply to
Message-ID: <20160524212356.GA2649@dcvr.yhbt.net>
In-Reply-To: <0285f901-a1d1-2715-4207-68c7d103da5e@grenoble-inp.org>

Samuel GROOT <samuel.groot@grenoble-inp.org> wrote:
> On 05/23/2016 09:55 PM, Eric Wong wrote:
> >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`.

Yes, given we have instructions for diffstat and table of contents;
I think it'd be useful to discourage quoting irrelevant parts of
the message (especially signatures and like).