On 11 January 2013 08:47, Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 09:39:06AM -0700, Eric Blake wrote: > >> > Please don't answer "y" when git send email shows the following prompt: >> > >> > "Message-ID to be used as In-Reply-To for the first email?" >> > >> > you should respond with a message ID there. Unfortunately we have a >> > growing thread that contains submissions with this mistake. <snip/> > People answer 'y' to "Who should the emails appear to be from?" and > 'n' to "Message-ID to be used as In-Reply-To for the first email?" > for some unknown reason. While it is possible that your local > username really is "y" and you are sending the mail to your local > colleagues, it is possible, and some might even say it is likely, > that it is a user error. I have never used Git's email support so this doesn't affect me one way or another but it seems that checking the results is fixing the symptoms, not the problem? I apologize if this was already discussed but I couldn't find such a discussion. I was wondering if it might be a better idea to change the wording of the questions if they have proven so confusing? The first time (just now) that I read "Message-ID to be used as In-Reply-To for the first email?", it clearly seemed like a yes/no question to me. :-) How about "What Message-ID to use as In-Reply-To for the first email?" or "Provide the Message-ID to use as In-Reply-To for the first email:". I'm a little surprised that "Who should the emails appear to be from?" would be interpreted as a yes/no question but we could rephrase that similarly as "Provide the name of the email sender:" (I don't really like this particular version but you get the idea). -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html