From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 07 Apr 2020 22:20:58 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] format-patch: teach --no-encode-headers
Message-ID: <xmqq8sj7rl85.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <20200407203111.GA1936475@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> Saying "--no-rfc2047-encoding" would be more descriptive to _me_, but I
> wonder if people not so familiar with the standards would find it a bit
> obscure. Another option is to invert it to "--8bit-email-headers" or
> something.

Yup, having "rfc2047" in the name of the option was one of the
things I considered suggesting, but I didn't for the same reason.  I
am OK with "--[no-]8bit-email-headers" (when --8bit, rfc2047 is
skipped).  Or "--[no-]email-header-encoding".

Thanks.