On Tue, Sep 21 2021, Thiago Perrotta wrote: Note: using --in-reply-to to the previous version in "git format-patch" helps keep track of the context. > Carlo suggests to generate the flags programatically from the perl > script. I am looking into this and already have a proof-of-concept > working and plan to submit it as a separate patch series. I would like > to get this series checked in first though. Isn't this just: my @params = <getopts list>; GetOptions(@params); And then doing some light parsing/slicinng of the @params list to get the keys you've duplicated here? I for one would much prefer to see that go in right away than the churn of first hardcoding these, then removing the hardcoding etc.