Re: [PATCH v2] bugreport: use quoted line prefixes
On Fri, Aug 15, 2025, at 18:18, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> kristofferhaugsbakk@fastmail.com writes:
>
>> From: Kristoffer Haugsbakk <code@khaugsbakk.name>
>>
>> Quoted line prefixes make it easier to distinguish between the questions
>> and the answers, both for the reporter and for the readers.
>
> This may improve things a bit, but the #1 thing that made the
> reports most hard to read for me, while reading bugreport output
> posted here over time, is lack of a blank line between each question
> and its answer (and the tail end of an answer and the beginning of
> the next question).
I’ve added this in the [v3].
[v3]: <3d00cdbe8535fda8f9e72b5243090e6d953c133e.1755866791.git.code@khaugsbakk.name>
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>> -"Thank you for filling out a Git bug report!\n"
>> -"Please answer the following questions to help us understand your issue.\n"
>> +"> Thank you for filling out a Git bug report!\n"
>> +"> Please answer the following questions to help us understand your issue.\n"
>> "\n"
>
> I do not see a need to quote the above. Nobody will write in this
> space between the above introductory text and the first question
> below.
I agree. This has been changed as well in v3.
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>> -"What did you do before the bug happened? (Steps to reproduce your issue)\n"
>> +"> What did you do before the bug happened? (Steps to reproduce your issue)\n"
>> "\n"
> [snip]