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

From: Kristoffer Haugsbakk <code@khaugsbakk.name>
Date: Apr 17, 2024, 11:31 UTC
Message-ID: <d60e5ddd-643d-41f2-849d-6ab660df734c@app.fastmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <1f31004bd8445e1e4717817638d5509a@manjaro.org>

On Wed, Apr 17, 2024, at 12:52, Dragan Simic wrote:

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> Hello Phillip,
>
> On 2024-04-17 12:02, Phillip Wood wrote:
>> On 17/04/2024 04:32, Dragan Simic wrote:
>>> Add --resend as the new command-line option for "git format-patch"
>>> that adds
>>> "RESEND" as a (sub)suffix to the patch subject prefix, eventually
>>> producing
>>> "[PATCH RESEND]" as the default patch subject prefix.
>>>
>>> "[PATCH RESEND]" is a patch subject prefix commonly used on mailing
>>> lists
>>> for patches resent to a mailing list after they had attracted no
>>> attention
>>> for some time, usually for a couple of weeks.  As such, this subject
>>> prefix
>>> deserves adding --resend as a new shorthand option to "git
>>> format-patch".
>>
>> 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?
>
> Based on my experience, "[PATCH RESEND]" is roughly as commonly
> used as "[PATCH RFC]".  In other words, it obviously isn't used
> as much as the good, old plain "[PATCH]", but it is used.

The format-patch generated string is `RFC PATCH`.

The number of emails with `PATCH RESEND` for this list:[1]

``` $ git log --oneline --fixed-strings --grep='[PATCH RESEND' | wc -l 28 ```

For RFC:

``` $ git log --oneline --fixed-strings --grep='[RFC PATCH' | wc -l 1181 ```

† 1: According to http://lore.kernel.org/git/1

-- 
Kristoffer Haugsbakk