Re: [PATCH v4] send-email: make it easy to discern the messages for each patch

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Dragan Simic <dsimic@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Following the approach of making the produced output more readable, also
> emit additional vertical whitespace after the "Send this email [y/n/...]?"
> prompt.

Hmph.  I'd prefer to see you try not to endlessly extend the scope
of a topic.

By including the above change, the patch no longer is small and
focused enough, which was the reason why we said that the "let's
move the final newline out of the translatable string" can be done
as a "while at it" change.

Besides, because of the switch to separator semantics, that hunk
lost the reason to exist as part of the "use a blank line between
output for each message"---the change no longer is needed to support
the feature.

Even though it is a good change to have, and it deserves to be
justified by its merit alone.

The whole thing deserves to be a three-patch series, the first one
being a preliminarly "let's move the final newline out of the
translatable string" step, followed by "let's have a gap between
output for each patch sent out".  Perhaps another "even during
sending a single patch, we may want extra blank lines when use of
editor and other user interation is involved" patch on top.

I haven't formed an opinion on that last step, and I do not think I
can spend any time to think about that new part of the feature for
some time (others can review that part and give their opinion on it,
of course, while I'll be working on other topics).  It would mean
you are adding yet another feature to delay the base improvement to
stabilize.  You really do not want to do that.

In any case, this [v4], as a single ball of wax, is not something I
can confidently say "I reviewed this and looks OK".

Thanks.




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