Re: [PATCH 2/2] send-email: quote-email quotes the message body

From: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@univ-lyon1.fr>
Date: Nov 1, 2017, 11:12 UTC
Message-ID: <q7h9shdyw8vu.fsf@orange.lip.ens-lyon.fr>
In-Reply-To: <0db6387ef95b4fafbd70068be9e4f7c5@BPMBX2013-01.univ-lyon1.fr>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

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> Hmmm.  I have a strong suspicion that people want an option to
> trigger the feature from just 1/2 but not 2/2 some of the time.
> Sure, removing the unwanted lines in the compose editor may be easy,
> but it feels wasteful use of user's time to include the lines of
> text from the original only to have them removed.

So, that could be

  git send-email --in-reply-to=message-id  # message-id is not a file
  => existing behavior

  git send-email --in-reply-to=file
  => populate To:, Cc:, In-Reply-To: and References:

  git send-email --in-reply-to=file --quote
  => in addition to the above, include the quoted message in the body

(perhaps --quote should be --cite, I'm not sure which one looks best for a native speaker)

This also leaves room for

  git send-email --in-reply-to=message-id --fetch [--quote]
  => download the message body from e.g. public-inbox and do the same as
     for --in-reply-to=file

(which doesn't have to be implemented now, but would be a nice-to-have in the future)

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