Re: git send-email should not allow 'y' for in-reply-to

On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 10:43:39AM -0800, Hilco Wijbenga wrote:

quoted

  People answer 'y' to "Who should the emails appear to be from?"  and
  'n' to "Message-ID to be used as In-Reply-To for the first email?"
  for some unknown reason.  While it is possible that your local
  username really is "y" and you are sending the mail to your local
  colleagues, it is possible, and some might even say it is likely,
  that it is a user error.

I have never used Git's email support so this doesn't affect me one
way or another but it seems that checking the results is fixing the
symptoms, not the problem? I apologize if this was already discussed
but I couldn't find such a discussion.

It depends on who you are. If you are the person running send-email,
then the symptom is your confusion. If you are somebody else, the
symptom is somebody else sending out a bogus email. That patch fixes
only the latter. :)

More seriously, I agree that re-wording the question is a reasonable
thing to do. I do not use send-email, either, so I don't have a strong
opinion on it. The suggestions you made:

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.

-Peff