Re: [PATCH 3/4] format-patch: new --resend option for adding "RESEND" to patch subjects

> 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.