On Wed, Apr 17, 2024 at 2:07 AM Dragan Simic <dsimic@xxxxxxxxxxx> 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.
