From: Dragan Simic Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2024 11:34:52 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] format-patch: new --resend option for adding "RESEND" to patch subjects Message-ID: In-Reply-To: On 2024-04-17 13:31, Kristoffer Haugsbakk wrote: > On Wed, Apr 17, 2024, at 12:52, Dragan Simic wrote: >> 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`. True. It's just that I more often see "PATCH RFC", for some reason. Please note that I'm also taking other mailing lists into account. > 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 I wonder what does it say for "RESEND" only?