From: Dragan Simic Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2024 06:43:03 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] format-patch: fix an option coexistence bug and add new --resend option Message-ID: In-Reply-To: On 2024-04-17 08:23, Eric Sunshine wrote: > On Wed, Apr 17, 2024 at 2:07 AM Dragan Simic > wrote: >> On 2024-04-17 08:02, Eric Sunshine wrote: >> > [*] For instance, my knee-jerk reaction is that we don't want to keep >> > piling on these special-case flags each time someone wants their new >> > favorite word as a lead-in to "PATCH". In addition to --rfc, and >> > --resend, the next person might want --rfd or --tbd, etc. More >> > palatable would be a general-purpose option which lets you specify the >> > prefix which appears in front of "PATCH", but even that can be argued >> > as unnecessary since we already have --subject-prefix. >> >> Makes sense, but in that case accepting the --rfc option, back at the >> time, was actually some kind of a mistake, if you agree. > > Possibly. It does happen that, in retrospect, some changes come to be > viewed as mistakes. On the other hand, if --rfc existed before > --subject-prefix was introduced, then --rfc would just be historic > accretion rather than a mistake. (I didn't check which option came > first.) > > At any rate, we probably want to be careful about piling on more > special-cases without considering general-purpose solutions. Yes, but the usability should also be taken into consideration. IOW, perhaps typing just --rfc or --resend is rather quick and usable, instead of having to use a general-purpose solution and type much more, or instead of having to create an alias.