On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 10:43:39AM -0800, Hilco Wijbenga wrote:
> People answer 'y' to "Who should the emails
appear to be from?" and
> 'n' to "Message-ID to be used as In-Reply-To for the first
email?"
> for some unknown reason. While it is possible that your local
> username really is "y" and you are sending the mail to your local
> colleagues, it is possible, and some might even say it is likely,
> that it is a user error.
I have never used Git's email support so this doesn't affect me one
way or another but it seems that checking the results is fixing the
symptoms, not the problem? I apologize if this was already discussed
but I couldn't find such a discussion.
It depends on who you are. If you are the person running send-email,
then the symptom is your confusion. If you are somebody else, the
symptom is somebody else sending out a bogus email. That patch fixes
only the latter. :)
More seriously, I agree that re-wording the question is a reasonable
thing to do. I do not use send-email, either, so I don't have a strong
opinion on it. The suggestions you made:
How about "What Message-ID to use as In-Reply-To for the first
email?"
or "Provide the Message-ID to use as In-Reply-To for the first
email:".
seem fine to me. Maybe somebody who has been confused by it can offer
more. At any rate, patches welcome.
-Peff