Re: [PATCH 2/2] send-email: quote-email quotes the message body

Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] writes:

Hmmm.  I have a strong suspicion that people want an option to
trigger the feature from just 1/2 but not 2/2 some of the time.
Sure, removing the unwanted lines in the compose editor may be easy,
but it feels wasteful use of user's time to include the lines of
text from the original only to have them removed.

So, that could be

  git send-email --in-reply-to=message-id  # message-id is not a file
  => existing behavior

  git send-email --in-reply-to=file
  => populate To:, Cc:, In-Reply-To: and References:

  git send-email --in-reply-to=file --quote
  => in addition to the above, include the quoted message in the body

(perhaps --quote should be --cite, I'm not sure which one looks best for
a native speaker)

This also leaves room for

  git send-email --in-reply-to=message-id --fetch [--quote]
  => download the message body from e.g. public-inbox and do the same as
     for --in-reply-to=file

(which doesn't have to be implemented now, but would be a nice-to-have
in the future)

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