Re: [RFC-PATCH 1/2] send-email: new option to quote an email and reply to

From: Aaron Schrab <aaron@schrab.com>
Date: May 24, 2016, 22:30 UTC
Message-ID: <20160524223005.GB23162@pug>
In-Reply-To: <vpqshx77h9o.fsf@anie.imag.fr>

At 14:49 +0200 24 May 2016, Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr> wrote:

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>Samuel GROOT <samuel.groot@grenoble-inp.org> 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.