From: "Kristoffer Haugsbakk" <kristofferhaugsbakk@fastmail•com>
To: "Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox•com>
Cc: git@vger•kernel.org,
"Kristoffer Haugsbakk" <code@khaugsbakk•name>,
"Emily Shaffer" <nasamuffin@google•com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] bugreport: use quoted line prefixes
Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2025 10:23:11 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2289e675-47b0-4cd1-aeb2-53664597e0f7@app.fastmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqq5xeosgm3.fsf@gitster.g>
On Fri, Aug 15, 2025, at 18:18, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> kristofferhaugsbakk@fastmail•com writes:
>
>> From: Kristoffer Haugsbakk <code@khaugsbakk•name>
>>
>> Quoted line prefixes make it easier to distinguish between the questions
>> and the answers, both for the reporter and for the readers.
>
> This may improve things a bit, but the #1 thing that made the
> reports most hard to read for me, while reading bugreport output
> posted here over time, is lack of a blank line between each question
> and its answer (and the tail end of an answer and the beginning of
> the next question).
I’ve added this in the [v3].
[v3]: <3d00cdbe8535fda8f9e72b5243090e6d953c133e.1755866791.git.code@khaugsbakk•name>
>> -"Thank you for filling out a Git bug report!\n"
>> -"Please answer the following questions to help us understand your issue.\n"
>> +"> Thank you for filling out a Git bug report!\n"
>> +"> Please answer the following questions to help us understand your issue.\n"
>> "\n"
>
> I do not see a need to quote the above. Nobody will write in this
> space between the above introductory text and the first question
> below.
I agree. This has been changed as well in v3.
>
>> -"What did you do before the bug happened? (Steps to reproduce your issue)\n"
>> +"> What did you do before the bug happened? (Steps to reproduce your issue)\n"
>> "\n"
> [snip]
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-08-23 8:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-07-23 17:59 [PATCH] bugreport: add quoted line prefixes Felipe Contreras
2025-08-15 11:10 ` [PATCH v2] bugreport: use " kristofferhaugsbakk
2025-08-15 16:18 ` Junio C Hamano
2025-08-23 8:23 ` Kristoffer Haugsbakk [this message]
2025-08-22 12:49 ` [PATCH v3] bugreport: use quoted line prefixes & more blank lines kristofferhaugsbakk
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