From: Aaron Schrab Date: Tue, 24 May 2016 22:30:05 GMT Subject: Re: [RFC-PATCH 1/2] send-email: new option to quote an email and reply to Message-ID: <20160524223005.GB23162@pug> In-Reply-To: At 14:49 +0200 24 May 2016, Matthieu Moy wrote: >Samuel GROOT 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.