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From: Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail.com>
To: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Cc: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>,
	Jeff King <peff@peff.net>, Git mailing list <git@vger.kernel.org>,
	Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: Over-/underquoting, was Re: [PATCH] revert: clarify seemingly bogus OPT_END repetition
Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2016 13:15:58 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+P7+xpVbSbHP-j1c+zQjMALb_C5eOb-c23290AbVjufxOHqoQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1607061514200.6426@virtualbox>

On Wed, Jul 6, 2016 at 6:16 AM, Johannes Schindelin
<Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
>> Johannes Schindelin venit, vidit, dixit 06.07.2016 09:01:
>> OTOH, I often have to look up the original message because people cut
>> too much, or because they take one sentence out of context.
>
> And others quote too much. In your case, the reference to Peff's patch was
> not at all what you referred to.
>

I obviously left the whole message, and I usually try to cut what I am
replying to but I forgot and was in a bit of a hurry that day. I think
most people are capable of checking archives if they are worried about
someone quoting out of context.

>> It is not unheard of that a MUA can collapse and expand properly quoted
>> parts on request...
>
> Sure. Show me some kick-ass, scriptable mail client and I will have a
> look.
>

Yep, I haven't found a mail client that really works for me either :(

> Ciao,
> Johannes

Regards,
Jake

  reply	other threads:[~2016-07-06 20:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-07-05 11:58 [PATCH] revert: clarify seemingly bogus OPT_END repetition Johannes Schindelin
2016-07-05 20:28 ` Jeff King
2016-07-05 20:44   ` Jeff King
2016-07-05 21:15     ` Jacob Keller
2016-07-06  7:01       ` Johannes Schindelin
2016-07-06 11:09         ` Michael J Gruber
2016-07-06 13:16           ` Over-/underquoting, was " Johannes Schindelin
2016-07-06 20:15             ` Jacob Keller [this message]
2016-07-09 15:34               ` Michael J Gruber
2016-07-09 23:35                 ` Eric Wong
2016-07-06  7:28     ` Johannes Schindelin
2016-07-06  7:03   ` Johannes Schindelin
2016-07-06 10:48     ` Jeff King

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