On 10/20/2010 01:10 PM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
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> From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@linux.intel.com>
> Date: Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 12:53:43PM -0700
> 
>> (This is a constant problem, by the way: people seems to want to prefix,
>> not suffix, their commentary; "cover letter" style.)  I suspect git
>> needs to change, but it's hard to know exactly how to change it.
> 
> That's easy, remove the cover letter style when inlining patches further
> down the mail.

The problem is that right now, if there is text like this:

A
---
B

patch

A is retained, and B discarded.  When to discard A and when to discard B
is the hard part.

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> But yeah, I'm still trying to decide for me which mail attribution
> format (set attribution="..." in mutt) is better/clearer:
> 
> From: foo
> Date: bar
> 
> or
> 
> On <date>, <person> said:
> 
> Hmm...
> 

Well, the latter can at least be edited out.

The former *really* gunks up git.

	-hpa

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