Re: [PATCH v3 13/13] format-patch: learn --infer-cover-subject option

> Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.email> writes:
> 
> > Perhaps the `--infer-cover-subject` the config option needs to be
> > multi-valued to include:
> >      "subject" (always expect short first lines) or
> >      "message" (always the long paragraph description, still use
> > ***Subject Here***),
> >      with the "true" being used when expecting both as previously
> > described.

> 
> The idea to have three choices feels that this is getting better,
> but I notice that the choice is no longer about "subject".
> 
> I've always felt that the name of this option is way suboptimal.
> One reason is because the option only says it is about the subject
> of the cover (letter), and the verb "infer" conveys almost no
> information---especially it does not say anything about what affects
> the inference (hint: the branch description value gets used, in a
> single hardcoded ways right now, but now with the patch we have a
> choice to control how it gets used).