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

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Aug 27, 2020, 23:23 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqq4konptab.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <C585GT9K2V93.4O470Q21FXFD@homura>

"Drew DeVault" <sir@cmpwn.com> writes:

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> On Thu Aug 27, 2020 at 6:57 PM EDT, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> To help those who do not want to add this header, it would probably
>> be more helpful to tell what to do when prompted (like "you can give
>> an empty answer to tell the command that you are not responding to
>> any message").
>
> I don't like this solution. We should make it harder to do the wrong
> thing, and easier to do the right thing.

Carlo and I were discussing how best to describe the behaviour we have better to the users, which is unrelated to any code change that would be required to "make it harder make it easier."

We need to do so to help users in the meantime, before any behaviour change (which need to happen over several releases, as outlined earlier) happens.