Re: [PATCH] send-email: do not prompt for In-Reply-To

From: Drew DeVault <sir@cmpwn.com>
Date: Aug 28, 2020, 01:10 UTC
Message-ID: <C5889MKRLCLQ.38RAZT2KCK6Q9@homura>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqsgc7oa5s.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com>

On Thu Aug 27, 2020 at 9:02 PM EDT, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> The minority who wants to use an updated behaviour can just set the
> configuration once and the problem is behind them. The minority who
> wants to keep the current behaviour do not have to do anything. And
> there is no impact to the majority of people either way.

Eh, this would defeat the purpose. I hate the multi-cycle compatibility-breaking dance as much as the next guy, but the whole reason I'm here is to solve a real problem which noobs are encountering. I on-board a lot of people with git-send-email and I've heard questions and confusions over this prompt at least 10 times in the past few years. Compatibility breakage is annoying but this is a real problem which real users are having real difficulty with, and the demographic of affected user may be particularly ill-equipped to deal with it on their own.