On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 10:43:39AM -0800, Hilco Wijbenga wrote: > > 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. It depends on who you are. If you are the person running send-email, then the symptom is your confusion. If you are somebody else, the symptom is somebody else sending out a bogus email. That patch fixes only the latter. :) More seriously, I agree that re-wording the question is a reasonable thing to do. I do not use send-email, either, so I don't have a strong opinion on it. The suggestions you made: > 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:". seem fine to me. Maybe somebody who has been confused by it can offer more. At any rate, patches welcome. -Peff -- 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