Re: [RFC-PATCH 1/2] send-email: new option to quote an email and reply to

At 14:49 +0200 24 May 2016, Matthieu Moy [off-list ref] wrote:

Samuel GROOT [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

What kind of help text would you want to see?

Maybe something like this:

  GIT: Quoted message body below.
  GIT: Feel free to trim down the quoted text
  GIT: to only relevant portions.

As "GIT:" portions are ignored when parsed by `git send-email`.

That's an option, but in the context of email, I think these
instructions are not necessary.

In an ideal world that would be true.  But in the real world I think 
evidence of many messages to this mailing list containing full quotes 
suggests it might be helpful. I'd actually argue that the message be 
more forceful, making it a suggestion/request to trim rather than simply 
telling the user that it's allowed.