Re: [PATCH] format-patch: teach --no-encode-headers

[Emma Brooks <me@pluvano.com>]

On 2020-04-07 12:37:31-0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Emma Brooks <me@pluvano.com> writes:
> 
> > It's also too vague and it's not entirely clear from the option itself
> > what sort of encoding it refers to. I will change it to
> > --[no-]q-encode-headers and format.qEncodeHeaders in v2 unless there are
> > other suggestions.
> 
> I actually did not mean to push you into that direction.  We can,
> and do want to, keep the most generic "--[no-]encode-headers" if we
> do not anticipate us wanting to special case the Q encoding.  A
> sample question to ask is "would it make sense to disable q-encoding
> but still perform other parts of 'encode headers'?"  I haven't
> thought deeply about such questions, but as a proposer of this
> topic, you would certainly have, and I was hoping that you'd say
> things like "Q-encoding is the only thing that we do to munge
> headers, so there aren't any 'other parts of encoding headers' we
> need to worry about", "there are things like X, Y and Z that we do
> to the headers when we enable Q-encoding, but they all are what we
> do not want when we do not want the Q-encoding", which would be a
> very good sign that assures us that "--[no-]encode-headers" is a
> good name.

Ah. I don't think there are any cases where we do other sorts of
encoding, or want to enable one "part" of encoding and disable another.
I do think the name need to be more obviously about *email* headers as
Jeff pointed out, though.