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

Ben Aveling [off-list ref] writes:

On 12/01/2013 10:54 AM, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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Antoine Pelisse [off-list ref] writes:

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I would simply go for:

   What Message-ID are you replying to (if any)?

If I don't know what to answer, I would definitely not say y/yes/n/no,
but press enter directly.

Sounds sensible (even though technically you reply to a message
that has that message ID, and not to a message ID ;-)).

Any better phrasing from others?  If not, I'd say we adopt this
text.

I guess it depends on how much we mind if people accidentally miss the
message ID.

If we don't mind much, we could say something like:

  What Message-ID are you replying to [Default=None]?


If we are concerned that when a Message-ID exists, it should be
provided, we could split to 2 questions:

  Are you replying to an existing Message [Y/n]?

And then, if the answer is Y,

  What Message-ID are you replying to?

Eewww.  Now we come back to full circles.

It sometimes helps to follow the in-reply-to chain to see what has
already been said in the thread, I guess ;-)