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Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2024 14:00:12 -0400
From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Phillip Wood <phillip.wood123@gmail.com>,
	Dragan Simic <dsimic@manjaro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] format-patch: allow --rfc to optionally take a value,
 like --rfc=WIP
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On Thu, Apr 18, 2024 at 03:54:25PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> ---rfc::
> -	Prepends "RFC" to the subject prefix (producing "RFC PATCH" by
> -	default). RFC means "Request For Comments"; use this when sending
> -	an experimental patch for discussion rather than application.
> +--rfc[=<rfc>]::
> +	Prepends the string _<rfc>_ (defaults to "RFC") to
> +	the subject prefix.  As the subject prefix defaults to
> +	"PATCH", you'll get "RFC PATCH" by default.
> ++
> +RFC means "Request For Comments"; use this when sending
> +an experimental patch for discussion rather than application.
> +"--rfc=WIP" may also be a useful way to indicate that a patch
> +is not complete yet.

It's probably worth spelling out WIP here, too, like:

  ...is not complete yet ("WIP" stands for "Work In Progress").

These are necessarily going to be project-specific phrases, and readers
of the manpage may not be familiar with our conventions.

-Peff