From: Tom Russello Date: Wed, 25 May 2016 00:04:46 GMT Subject: Re: [RFC-PATCH 1/2] send-email: new option to quote an email and reply to Message-ID: <9afb4e1e-9e60-79eb-c90f-77b2eb55d1aa@grenoble-inp.org> In-Reply-To: <20160524223005.GB23162@pug> On 05/25/16 00:30, Aaron Schrab wrote: > 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. Furthermore, it is a good way to avoid very long messages due to unnecessary parts quoted. Therefore, we thought about a request like "Please, trim down irrelevant sections in the quoted message to keep your email concise"