Re: git send-email should not allow 'y' for in-reply-to

From: Ben Aveling <bena.001@optusnet.com.au>
Date: Jan 12, 2013, 01:02 UTC
Message-ID: <50F0B643.20201@optusnet.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <7vmwwf9sx9.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On 12/01/2013 10:54 AM, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> Antoine Pelisse <apelisse@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> I would simply go for:
>>
>>    What Message-ID are you replying to (if any)?
>>
>> If I don't know what to answer, I would definitely not say y/yes/n/no,
>> but press enter directly.
> Sounds sensible (even though technically you reply to a message
> that has that message ID, and not to a message ID ;-)).
>
> Any better phrasing from others?  If not, I'd say we adopt this
> text.

I guess it depends on how much we mind if people accidentally miss the message ID.

If we don't mind much, we could say something like:

   What Message-ID are you replying to [Default=None]?

If we are concerned that when a Message-ID exists, it should be provided, we could split to 2 questions:

   Are you replying to an existing Message [Y/n]?

And then, if the answer is Y,

   What Message-ID are you replying to?

Regards, Ben