Re: [Quilt-dev] [patch 1/3] Add --no-intro option

[Andreas Gruenbacher]

On Tuesday 05 September 2006 17:53, Jean Delvare wrote:
> > > We could decide that --no-intro is never interactive (--to becomes
> > > mandatory), or make it clearer at edition that only some mail headers
> > > are to be edited.
> >
> > I think Subject-Prefix should remain editable at least.
>
> Agreed
>
> > > This would mean removing the Message-Id, Date and
> > > Subject headers as well as the signature, and maybe even adding an
> > > explicit warning.
> >
> > Why are Message-Id and Date editable in the first place?
>
> No idea. I presume that you simply see all the generated headers at
> that point and you aren't actually supposed to edit these two values.
> Maybe we can make things more simple for the user by adding them after
> edition rather than before. Or maybe some people really want to tweak
> these values for whatever reason.

No good reason, really. I just tried to not restrict users more than 
necessary, while keeping the whole thing reasonably simple.

One thing I'm unsure about is whether we really want to give up threading for 
patch series without intro messages.

Andreas