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From: Dragan Simic <dsimic@manjaro.org>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood123@gmail.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] format-patch: new --resend option for adding "RESEND" to patch subjects
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2024 19:34:09 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <c2cb9268c29ae4a5cac34383b7443763@manjaro.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqq7cgwau1v.fsf@gitster.g>

Hello Junio,

On 2024-04-17 17:27, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Phillip Wood <phillip.wood123@gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> Playing devil's advocate for a minute, is this really common enough to
>> justify a new option when the user can use "--subject-prefix='PATCH
>> RESEND'" instead?
> 
> The same applies to "--rfc", but the justification goes like this.
> 
>  * When you are working on a single subsystem in a larger project,
>    your patches would want to carry the subsystem name.  You'd use
>    "--subject-prefix='PATCH frotz'" (and more likely it comes from
>    format.subjectPrefix in a working repository dedicated to work on
>    the frotz subsystem) for that.
> 
>  * In the context of working on that subsystem, sometimes you would
>    need to mark your patch as a RFC patch, i.e., "[RFC PATCH frotz]",
>    and that is done per-invocation basis (i.e., you are not always
>    constantly sending an RFC) with "--rfc".
> 
> Having orthogonal two mechanisms whose results are concatenated
> together is handy than having to specify the whole thing.
> 
> I somehow thought that during the review of the "--rfc" option a few
> ideas were brought up to deal with adornments other than but similar
> to RFC.  I still think the approach to make "--rfc" take an optional
> value, e.g., "--rfc=WIP" from the repository working in "frotz"
> subsystem would produce "[WIP PATCH frotz v2 2/4]" a reasonable one.

With all due respect, "--rfc=WIP" looks like a kludge, simply
because "--rfc" should, IIUC, be some kind of a fixed shorthand.
Perhaps a new option should be added for that purpose, but I'm
not really sure how it could be called.

> cf.  https://lore.kernel.org/git/xmqqbkepep9k.fsf@gitster.g/
> 
> Thanks.

  reply	other threads:[~2024-04-17 17:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-04-17  3:32 [PATCH 0/4] format-patch: fix an option coexistence bug and add new --resend option Dragan Simic
2024-04-17  3:32 ` [PATCH 1/4] format-patch docs: avoid use of parentheses to improve readability Dragan Simic
2024-04-17  3:32 ` [PATCH 2/4] format-patch: fix a bug in option exclusivity and add a test to t4014 Dragan Simic
2024-04-17  6:15   ` Eric Sunshine
2024-04-17  6:29     ` Dragan Simic
2024-04-17  6:27   ` Patrick Steinhardt
2024-04-17  6:56     ` Dragan Simic
2024-04-18  9:12       ` Dragan Simic
2024-04-17  6:33   ` Kristoffer Haugsbakk
2024-04-17  6:40     ` Eric Sunshine
2024-04-17  7:11       ` Dragan Simic
2024-04-17 11:38         ` Kristoffer Haugsbakk
2024-04-17 11:48           ` Dragan Simic
2024-04-17  6:54     ` Dragan Simic
2024-04-17 12:00     ` Dragan Simic
2024-04-17  3:32 ` [PATCH 3/4] format-patch: new --resend option for adding "RESEND" to patch subjects Dragan Simic
2024-04-17  6:14   ` Kristoffer Haugsbakk
2024-04-17  6:36     ` Dragan Simic
2024-04-17  6:43       ` Kristoffer Haugsbakk
2024-04-17  7:16         ` Dragan Simic
2024-04-17  6:35   ` Eric Sunshine
2024-04-17  7:05     ` Dragan Simic
2024-04-17  7:17       ` Eric Sunshine
2024-04-17  7:25         ` Dragan Simic
2024-04-18 20:04       ` Dragan Simic
2024-04-17 10:02   ` Phillip Wood
2024-04-17 10:52     ` Dragan Simic
2024-04-17 11:31       ` Kristoffer Haugsbakk
2024-04-17 11:34         ` Dragan Simic
2024-04-17 11:40           ` Kristoffer Haugsbakk
2024-04-17 11:43           ` Dragan Simic
2024-04-17 15:27     ` Junio C Hamano
2024-04-17 17:34       ` Dragan Simic [this message]
2024-04-17 21:03         ` Junio C Hamano
2024-04-17 21:09           ` Dragan Simic
2024-04-18  3:12             ` Dragan Simic
2024-04-18 22:34               ` Junio C Hamano
2024-04-19  0:08                 ` Dragan Simic
2024-04-19  0:15                 ` Eric Sunshine
2024-04-19  0:45                   ` Dragan Simic
2024-04-19  3:05                     ` Eric Sunshine
2024-04-19  2:13                   ` Junio C Hamano
2024-04-19  3:07                     ` Eric Sunshine
2024-04-19 16:21                       ` Junio C Hamano
2024-04-17  3:32 ` [PATCH 4/4] t4014: add tests to cover --resend option and its exclusivity Dragan Simic
2024-04-17  6:48   ` Eric Sunshine
2024-04-17  7:20     ` Dragan Simic
2024-04-17  6:02 ` [PATCH 0/4] format-patch: fix an option coexistence bug and add new --resend option Eric Sunshine
2024-04-17  6:07   ` Dragan Simic
2024-04-17  6:23     ` Eric Sunshine
2024-04-17  6:43       ` Dragan Simic

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