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

From: Raymond E. Pasco <ray@ameretat.dev>
Date: Aug 28, 2020, 01:44 UTC
Message-ID: <C588ZA2QAFBS.23DYVMBK3E0X6@ziyou.local>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqsgc7oa5s.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com>

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

> I agree that it is likely that only very small population even gets
> bittn by this "in-reply-to gets prompted" issue, because it is
> unlikely for users not to give "to:" address in one way or another
> and let the prompt logic to ask them.

The merits of this thread's proposal aside, send-email's prompting has always seemed half-baked to me - it often doesn't even show up, and doesn't prompt for some things that would be useful like additional CCs (and if you're setting In-Reply-To, there are probably additional CCs).

The prompts have helped me not flub emails before, but arguably that's not good since they're often not even shown and someone may come to rely on their presence only to later accidentally turn them off.

Anyway, it's worth noting that, because the prompts *do* exist, half-baked as they are, it's not really safe to assume that nobody sees them. There might be a sizable population out there never specifying "--to" because they know they'll be prompted for it.