On Mon Sep 28, 2020 at 12:00 PM PDT, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
Junio C Hamano wrote:
quoted
It certainly was fun to declare that users can use anything that
look like perforation drawn on paper, and to pile more and more
heuristics to detect such a line. But I think, instead of
describing all these details in the manual, telling the users to
always write "-- >8 --" and nothing else would be a better approach.
It would save them time.
Agreed, I think this is a much better direction.
Another advantage is that it makes us easier to change the heuristics,
confident that we are training users to aim for the simple and
reliable case instead of the edge cases that may need to be tweaked
over time.
Sounds good to me. How about:
Remove everything in body before a scissors line ("-- >8 --"). The line
represents scissors and perforation marks, and is used to request the
reader to cut the message at that line. If that line appears in the
body of the message before the patch, everything before it (including
the scissors line itself) is ignored when this option is used.
Etiquette question: Should a v2 patch be a new thread or reply to
this one?