From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail.manjaro.org (mail.manjaro.org [116.203.91.91]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id DF93717F7 for ; Wed, 17 Apr 2024 06:43:05 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=116.203.91.91 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1713336187; cv=none; b=mtc2dw4y2dHlw2JNa4GXN9okJmMoUAo6volibCxVsAKXrx94SwEkfgqTM+sc1aOEz3GXltCmNTIhP4DuTj9dfi5bCFlDeT3Q4zSycOWDk844xZXcbPSK8HA0TabDVcN7lGWnM69DyAMJz+1TFlB3ptkzVXdKdTGrC2gKPfxEzKk= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1713336187; c=relaxed/simple; bh=knVITYSh4SA9vKmZC2pCfp19OQQFbvHfw3SQMejoD2Q=; h=MIME-Version:Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:References: Message-ID:Content-Type; b=PWfPMV9mgREUQk7t6sZjNavH3GIkiyf8iS8CaaMoyl8TzbdF7Sk9qZ1NQu2yciOWL+Pa4G/Q67pjPkPTMotgFEG4gpGaaWXBkYKpk9Ztk6/07mvNaOIt655S1Tj04XXeQyhGrYxiKG255neX/98JLBxigmdI+3CwkFoAvxFr+k0= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=quarantine dis=none) header.from=manjaro.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=manjaro.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=manjaro.org header.i=@manjaro.org header.b=rFjtfiww; arc=none smtp.client-ip=116.203.91.91 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=quarantine dis=none) header.from=manjaro.org Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=manjaro.org Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=manjaro.org header.i=@manjaro.org header.b="rFjtfiww" Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=manjaro.org; s=2021; t=1713336184; h=from:from:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date:message-id:message-id: to:to:cc:cc:mime-version:mime-version:content-type:content-type: content-transfer-encoding:content-transfer-encoding: in-reply-to:in-reply-to:references:references; bh=pm4z6qqxz07mRR/dOrYF6Q5FO9kCZaSIVVDZp7nMMOU=; b=rFjtfiwwfIG8oREYT+Qu5u9Z68j77zWAgHZfYPh5C076e9ak7t7IBYgjPATcuAoVr0gKhg pBl7u2lvUpMH3Ry6UB/GEo7FiUZoXNwEhBMQM8iVaSx0bcvCRWHIpeM/fMQ26wbjB3WC3e sIaq9+m8P7xCWDp7tpGHocKriWPMigHPo5oDGHcHDCs6ietcUm3hUlG28e0uxocEa+/gMO FBFKhh8PdDkKYir4m3xsYoKM9mio6AaLfsdEeSQTnh33g8NNp+M5LGmgtWZN2Kux5dOJgn QvgXxgxYSD9Oicn42Qeln+AziQDeeZD4U/2EP5vpH2ZDOEJYAIhUBfTxizdpTw== Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2024 08:43:03 +0200 From: Dragan Simic To: Eric Sunshine Cc: git@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] format-patch: fix an option coexistence bug and add new --resend option In-Reply-To: References: <36c4a1e23653c2844a52fd994501287d@manjaro.org> Message-ID: X-Sender: dsimic@manjaro.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Authentication-Results: ORIGINATING; auth=pass smtp.auth=dsimic@manjaro.org smtp.mailfrom=dsimic@manjaro.org On 2024-04-17 08:23, Eric Sunshine wrote: > On Wed, Apr 17, 2024 at 2:07 AM Dragan Simic > wrote: >> On 2024-04-17 08:02, Eric Sunshine wrote: >> > [*] For instance, my knee-jerk reaction is that we don't want to keep >> > piling on these special-case flags each time someone wants their new >> > favorite word as a lead-in to "PATCH". In addition to --rfc, and >> > --resend, the next person might want --rfd or --tbd, etc. More >> > palatable would be a general-purpose option which lets you specify the >> > prefix which appears in front of "PATCH", but even that can be argued >> > as unnecessary since we already have --subject-prefix. >> >> Makes sense, but in that case accepting the --rfc option, back at the >> time, was actually some kind of a mistake, if you agree. > > Possibly. It does happen that, in retrospect, some changes come to be > viewed as mistakes. On the other hand, if --rfc existed before > --subject-prefix was introduced, then --rfc would just be historic > accretion rather than a mistake. (I didn't check which option came > first.) > > At any rate, we probably want to be careful about piling on more > special-cases without considering general-purpose solutions. Yes, but the usability should also be taken into consideration. IOW, perhaps typing just --rfc or --resend is rather quick and usable, instead of having to use a general-purpose solution and type much more, or instead of having to create an alias.