From: Dragan Simic <dsimic@manjaro.org>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood123@gmail.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] format-patch: new --resend option for adding "RESEND" to patch subjects
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2024 19:34:09 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <c2cb9268c29ae4a5cac34383b7443763@manjaro.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqq7cgwau1v.fsf@gitster.g>
Hello Junio,
On 2024-04-17 17:27, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Phillip Wood <phillip.wood123@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> 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?
>
> The same applies to "--rfc", but the justification goes like this.
>
> * When you are working on a single subsystem in a larger project,
> your patches would want to carry the subsystem name. You'd use
> "--subject-prefix='PATCH frotz'" (and more likely it comes from
> format.subjectPrefix in a working repository dedicated to work on
> the frotz subsystem) for that.
>
> * In the context of working on that subsystem, sometimes you would
> need to mark your patch as a RFC patch, i.e., "[RFC PATCH frotz]",
> and that is done per-invocation basis (i.e., you are not always
> constantly sending an RFC) with "--rfc".
>
> Having orthogonal two mechanisms whose results are concatenated
> together is handy than having to specify the whole thing.
>
> I somehow thought that during the review of the "--rfc" option a few
> ideas were brought up to deal with adornments other than but similar
> to RFC. I still think the approach to make "--rfc" take an optional
> value, e.g., "--rfc=WIP" from the repository working in "frotz"
> subsystem would produce "[WIP PATCH frotz v2 2/4]" a reasonable one.
With all due respect, "--rfc=WIP" looks like a kludge, simply
because "--rfc" should, IIUC, be some kind of a fixed shorthand.
Perhaps a new option should be added for that purpose, but I'm
not really sure how it could be called.
> cf. https://lore.kernel.org/git/xmqqbkepep9k.fsf@gitster.g/
>
> Thanks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-04-17 17:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-04-17 3:32 [PATCH 0/4] format-patch: fix an option coexistence bug and add new --resend option Dragan Simic
2024-04-17 3:32 ` [PATCH 1/4] format-patch docs: avoid use of parentheses to improve readability Dragan Simic
2024-04-17 3:32 ` [PATCH 2/4] format-patch: fix a bug in option exclusivity and add a test to t4014 Dragan Simic
2024-04-17 6:15 ` Eric Sunshine
2024-04-17 6:29 ` Dragan Simic
2024-04-17 6:27 ` Patrick Steinhardt
2024-04-17 6:56 ` Dragan Simic
2024-04-18 9:12 ` Dragan Simic
2024-04-17 6:33 ` Kristoffer Haugsbakk
2024-04-17 6:40 ` Eric Sunshine
2024-04-17 7:11 ` Dragan Simic
2024-04-17 11:38 ` Kristoffer Haugsbakk
2024-04-17 11:48 ` Dragan Simic
2024-04-17 6:54 ` Dragan Simic
2024-04-17 12:00 ` Dragan Simic
2024-04-17 3:32 ` [PATCH 3/4] format-patch: new --resend option for adding "RESEND" to patch subjects Dragan Simic
2024-04-17 6:14 ` Kristoffer Haugsbakk
2024-04-17 6:36 ` Dragan Simic
2024-04-17 6:43 ` Kristoffer Haugsbakk
2024-04-17 7:16 ` Dragan Simic
2024-04-17 6:35 ` Eric Sunshine
2024-04-17 7:05 ` Dragan Simic
2024-04-17 7:17 ` Eric Sunshine
2024-04-17 7:25 ` Dragan Simic
2024-04-18 20:04 ` Dragan Simic
2024-04-17 10:02 ` Phillip Wood
2024-04-17 10:52 ` Dragan Simic
2024-04-17 11:31 ` Kristoffer Haugsbakk
2024-04-17 11:34 ` Dragan Simic
2024-04-17 11:40 ` Kristoffer Haugsbakk
2024-04-17 11:43 ` Dragan Simic
2024-04-17 15:27 ` Junio C Hamano
2024-04-17 17:34 ` Dragan Simic [this message]
2024-04-17 21:03 ` Junio C Hamano
2024-04-17 21:09 ` Dragan Simic
2024-04-18 3:12 ` Dragan Simic
2024-04-18 22:34 ` Junio C Hamano
2024-04-19 0:08 ` Dragan Simic
2024-04-19 0:15 ` Eric Sunshine
2024-04-19 0:45 ` Dragan Simic
2024-04-19 3:05 ` Eric Sunshine
2024-04-19 2:13 ` Junio C Hamano
2024-04-19 3:07 ` Eric Sunshine
2024-04-19 16:21 ` Junio C Hamano
2024-04-17 3:32 ` [PATCH 4/4] t4014: add tests to cover --resend option and its exclusivity Dragan Simic
2024-04-17 6:48 ` Eric Sunshine
2024-04-17 7:20 ` Dragan Simic
2024-04-17 6:02 ` [PATCH 0/4] format-patch: fix an option coexistence bug and add new --resend option Eric Sunshine
2024-04-17 6:07 ` Dragan Simic
2024-04-17 6:23 ` Eric Sunshine
2024-04-17 6:43 ` Dragan Simic
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