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

[Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>]

On Thu, Apr 18, 2024 at 8:45 PM Dragan Simic <dsimic@manjaro.org> wrote:
> On 2024-04-19 02:15, Eric Sunshine wrote:
> > I do understand and am sympathetic to the desire to reduce the typing
> > load (hence, the original `--resend` proposal), but I have difficulty
> > believing that `git format-patch` is so commonly used throughout the
> > day that the time saved by typing `--resend` over
> > `--subject-prefix="RESEND PATCH"` warrants the extra implementation,
> > documentation, and testing baggage. Likewise, I don't see the value in
> > `--label=WIP` (or `--rfc=WIP` or whatever) over the existing more
> > general `--subject-prefix`.
>
> An additional reason, IMHO, for having "--rfc", "--rfc=<string>"
> or "--resend" is to reuse what's already configured through the
> "format.subjectPrefix" configuration option.  In the sense of not
> redefining what's already configured in ~/.gitconfig (in this case,
> "PATCH" or "PATCH lib", for example), by specifying an additional
> command-line option.
>
> If some user configures different values for "format.subjectPrefix"
> in different local repositories, such as when working on different
> subsystems, it becomes rather easy to get lost in all those prefixes,
> if the user needs to remember and type them entirely while using
> "--subject-prefix=<string>" to add more "labels" to a prefix.
>
> I hope it makes sense the way I wrote it above.

Yes, that makes sense. I wasn't aware of that behavior, as I have
never had a need to set that configuration.