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From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
To: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Cc: Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail.com>, Jeff King <peff@peff.net>,
	Git mailing list <git@vger.kernel.org>,
	Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Over-/underquoting, was Re: [PATCH] revert: clarify seemingly bogus OPT_END repetition
Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2016 15:16:08 +0200 (CEST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1607061514200.6426@virtualbox> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d1e0e688-a309-2a01-4ee2-c1af9d71cea0@drmicha.warpmail.net>

Hi Michael,

On Wed, 6 Jul 2016, Michael J Gruber wrote:

> Johannes Schindelin venit, vidit, dixit 06.07.2016 09:01:
> 
> > BTW Jacob, would you terribly mind cutting the quoted parts properly (I
> > cut 112 lines)? It may not seem like much, but I seem to spend more and
> > more of my email time budget on skimming unaddressed remainders of quoted
> > mails, and I would much rather spend that time on something productive.
> 
> 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.

> 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.

Ciao,
Johannes

  reply	other threads:[~2016-07-06 13:16 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           ` Johannes Schindelin [this message]
2016-07-06 20:15             ` Over-/underquoting, was " Jacob Keller
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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