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

Samuel GROOT [off-list ref] writes:

On 05/23/2016 10:00 PM, Matthieu Moy wrote:

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Your --quote-mail does two things:

1) Populate the To and Cc field

2) Include the original message body with quotation prefix.

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quoted

* If --compose is not given, don't send a cover-letter but cite the body
  as comment in the first patch.

Then should the option imply `--annotate`, to let the user edit the
patch containing the quoted email?

Actually, I'm not sure what the ideal behavior should be. Perhaps it's
better to distinguish 1) and 2) above, and have two options
--reply-to-email=<file> doing 1), and --quote doing 2), implying
--compose and requiring --reply-to-email.

That would be more flexible, but that would require two new options, and
I also like to keep things simple.

In any case, quoting the message without replying to it does not make
sense (especially if you add instructions to trim it: the user would not
even see it). So it its current form, I'd say --quote-email should imply
--annotate.

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