Re: [PATCH v1 2/8] format-patch: confirmation whenever patches exist

> Firmin Martin <firminmartin24@gmail.com> writes:
>
>>> True.  But if we require confirmation before overwriting patches,
>>> that would be overall worsening the end-user experience, I am
>>> afraid.  In a 5-patch series with a cover-letter that was formatted,
>>> proofread, corrected with "rebase -i" and then re-formatted, unless
>>> you rephrased the titles of the patches, you'd get prompted once for
>>> the cover letter (which *IS* valuable) and five-times for patches
>>> (which is annoying).
>> This is true for this patch, but the semantics changed after the patch
>> #3. I really should have squashed them together to not create
>> confusion. Sorry about that.
>
> No, please keep them separate.  What we can do to avoid confusion
> like I showed is to make a note on the earlier one, saying "with
> this the user experience looks like this, which may be suboptimal
> for such and such reasons, but in a later step it will be improved
> in this and that way".