Re: [PATCH 0/4] format-patch: fix an option coexistence bug and add new --resend option

[Dragan Simic <dsimic@manjaro.org>]

On 2024-04-17 08:23, Eric Sunshine wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 17, 2024 at 2:07 AM Dragan Simic <dsimic@manjaro.org> 
> wrote:
>> On 2024-04-17 08:02, Eric Sunshine wrote:
>> > [*] For instance, my knee-jerk reaction is that we don't want to keep
>> > piling on these special-case flags each time someone wants their new
>> > favorite word as a lead-in to "PATCH". In addition to --rfc, and
>> > --resend, the next person might want --rfd or --tbd, etc. More
>> > palatable would be a general-purpose option which lets you specify the
>> > prefix which appears in front of "PATCH", but even that can be argued
>> > as unnecessary since we already have --subject-prefix.
>> 
>> Makes sense, but in that case accepting the --rfc option, back at the
>> time, was actually some kind of a mistake, if you agree.
> 
> Possibly. It does happen that, in retrospect, some changes come to be
> viewed as mistakes. On the other hand, if --rfc existed before
> --subject-prefix was introduced, then --rfc would just be historic
> accretion rather than a mistake. (I didn't check which option came
> first.)
> 
> At any rate, we probably want to be careful about piling on more
> special-cases without considering general-purpose solutions.

Yes, but the usability should also be taken into consideration.
IOW, perhaps typing just --rfc or --resend is rather quick and
usable, instead of having to use a general-purpose solution and
type much more, or instead of having to create an alias.