Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx>: writes: > ... throughout this patch, not limited to this section, indentation > is strange and there seem to be many "print" that show messages that > do not seem to be meant for end-user consumption. I can see that > this aspires to improve the readability, but not quite yet ;-). Hmmm I'm wondering who place thoses print in my code ! I will fix it fast. :-) > Also "reusable in other place" is by itself not an unconditional > plus, until readers can be convinced that that 'other place' really > wants to be able to call this function. Is there some untold > motivation behind this change---such as a planned update to actually > use this helper subroutine? This subroutine will be used to implement, initially a new option called "--quote-email", but became "--cite" added after "--in-reply-to". This will permit to the user to cite a mail and reply with a patch and keep Cc, To ... See discussion : https://public-inbox.org/git/20171030223444.5052-1-nathan.payre@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/ And Daniel Timothee and I wanted to refactor an other part of the file using parse_header_line(). Near Line 1570.