Re: [PATCH v4 6/6] send-email: add option --cite to quote the message body

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On 06/09/2016 01:49 PM, Matthieu Moy wrote:
Samuel GROOT <samuel.groot@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

If used with `in-reply-to=<email_file>`, cite the message body of the given
email file. Otherwise, do nothing.

It should at least warn when --in-reply-to=<email_file> is not given
(either no --in-reply-to or --in-reply-to=<id>). I don't see any
use-case where a user would want --cite on the command-line and not want
--in-reply-to=<email_file>. OTOH, it seems a plausible user-error, and
the user would appreciate a message saying what's going on.

We weren't sure how to warn the user.

If --in-reply-to is not an mail file, should we check it with a regex to make sure it's a message-id?

@@ -56,6 +57,8 @@ git send-email --dump-aliases
     --subject               <str>  * Email "Subject:"
     --in-reply-to           <str>  * Email "In-Reply-To:"
     --in-reply-to          <file>  * Populate header fields appropriately.
+    --cite                         * Quote the message body in the cover if
+                                     --compose is set, else in the first patch.
     --[no-]xmailer                 * Add "X-Mailer:" header (default).
     --[no-]annotate                * Review each patch that will be sent in an editor.
     --compose                      * Open an editor for introduction.

Just wondering: would it make sense to activate --cite by default when
--in-reply-to=file is used, and to allow --no-cite to disable this?

This is something we can easily do now without breaking backward
compatibility (--in-reply-to=file doesn't exist yet), but would be more
painful to do later.

It's an interesting question.

IMHO we should have `--cite` by default and allow `--no-cite` to disable quoting the message body, because it's easier to remove extra unwanted lines than copying lines from another file and adding "> " before each line.

@@ -640,6 +644,7 @@ if (@files) {
 	usage();
 }

+my $message_cited;

Nit: I read "$message_cited" as "Boolean saying whether the message was
cited". $cited_message would be clearer to me (but this is to be taken
with a grain of salt as I'm not a native speaker), since the variable
holds the content of the cited message.

+sub do_insert_cited_message {
+	my $tmp_file = shift;
+	my $original_file = shift;
+
+	open my $c, "<", $original_file
+	or die "Failed to open $original_file: " . $!;
+
+	open my $c2, ">", $tmp_file
+		or die "Failed to open $tmp_file: " . $!;
+
+	# Insertion after the triple-dash
+	while (<$c>) {
+		print $c2 $_;
+		last if (/^---$/);
+	}
+	print $c2 $message_cited;

I would add a newline here to get a blank line between the message cited
and the diffstat.

A newline here makes it easier to distinguish the different sections in the email file indeed.

I think non-ascii characters would deserve particular attention here
too. For example, if the patch contain only ascii and the cited part
contains UTF-8, does the generated patch have a proper Content-type:
header?

Non-ascii characters are still an issue, I'll work on that next week.

I can imagine worse, like a patch containing latin1 character and a
cited message with another 8-bit encoding.

+test_expect_success $PREREQ 'correct cited message with --in-reply-to and --compose' '
+	grep "> On Sat, 12 Jun 2010 15:53:58 +0200, author@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:" msgtxt3 &&

I would prefer to have the full address including the real name here (A
<author@xxxxxxxxxxx>) in this example. Actually, after a quick look at
the code, I don't understand where the name has gone (what's shown here
is extracted from the From: header).

Yep, after a quick look at the code involved, I don't understand either, I will investigate this week.
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