On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 10:23 PM, Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 08:13:57PM +0000, Matt Seitz (matseitz) wrote: > >> > > 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. >> >> Suggestion: "Message-ID to use as In-Reply-To for the first email:". >> >> Simple and unlikely to generate a "y" or "n" response. Putting >> "Message-ID" first makes it more obvious what data is being asked for >> by this prompt. > > You'd think. But the existing message that has been causing problems is: > > Message-ID to be used as In-Reply-To for the first email? > > which is more or less what you are proposing. I do think a colon rather > than a question mark helps indicate that the response is not yes/no. That is true. I'm definitely not a wording person, but assuming people who make the mistake probably don't read the whole sentence out of laziness (that might be somehow extreme though ;), starting it with "what" makes it obvious at first sight that you can't answer yes/no. That is not true if the message starts with Message-ID .. which doesn't look like a question. Now it feels like you have agree or not. Antoine, -- 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