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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Cc: Dragan Simic <dsimic@manjaro.org>,  Phillip Wood
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] format-patch: new --resend option for adding
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Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> writes:

>> ..., but the value you seem to be missing of the separate "--rfc"
>> is that there are folks who configure something other than "PATCH"
>> to "format.subjectPrefix".  They do not want to keep typing
>> --subject-prefix="PATCH net-next" on the command line, so they use
>> the configuration variable, which is "set it once and forget".  The
>> stress is on the fact that they can forget about it.
>
> Indeed. I was unaware of that behavior.

The very original --rfc did overwrote --subject-prefix and did not
have a good reason to exist.  But with the relatively recent update,
it gained its usefulness.

Thanks.