Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Hmmm. I have a strong suspicion that people want an option to
> trigger the feature from just 1/2 but not 2/2 some of the time.
> Sure, removing the unwanted lines in the compose editor may be easy,
> but it feels wasteful use of user's time to include the lines of
> text from the original only to have them removed.
So, that could be
git send-email --in-reply-to=message-id # message-id is not a file
=> existing behavior
git send-email --in-reply-to=file
=> populate To:, Cc:, In-Reply-To: and References:
git send-email --in-reply-to=file --quote
=> in addition to the above, include the quoted message in the body
(perhaps --quote should be --cite, I'm not sure which one looks best for
a native speaker)
This also leaves room for
git send-email --in-reply-to=message-id --fetch [--quote]
=> download the message body from e.g. public-inbox and do the same as
for --in-reply-to=file
(which doesn't have to be implemented now, but would be a nice-to-have
in the future)
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Matthieu Moy
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