From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 18:18:39 GMT
Subject: Re: Snipping on this list
Message-ID: <7vtyfohvk0.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <4D6B6544.2040404@drmicha.warpmail.net>

Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> writes:

> As a general guideline, a reader should be able to understand the
> response without looking up the post you are responding to (but may have

A reader should be able to remember which original the response is about,
so that s/he can look it up if s/he doesn't.  If in doubt, I'd rather see
people discard irrelevent bits more not less.

> And don't cull cc, don't break the thread. (You haven don't that here, I
> do appreciate that, thanks!).

That is true.