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

On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 10:23 PM, Jeff King [off-list ref] wrote:

On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 08:13:57PM +0000, Matt Seitz (matseitz) wrote:

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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.

Suggestion: "Message-ID to use as In-Reply-To for the first email:".

Simple and unlikely to generate a "y" or "n" response.  Putting
"Message-ID" first makes it more obvious what data is being asked for
by this prompt.

You'd think. But the existing message that has been causing problems is:

  Message-ID to be used as In-Reply-To for the first email?

which is more or less what you are proposing. I do think a colon rather
than a question mark helps indicate that the response is not yes/no.

That is true.

I'm definitely not a wording person, but assuming people who make the
mistake probably don't read the whole sentence out of laziness (that
might be somehow extreme though ;), starting it with "what" makes it
obvious at first sight that you can't answer yes/no.
That is not true if the message starts with Message-ID .. which
doesn't look like a question. Now it feels like you have agree or not.

Antoine,