On 2024-04-17 08:23, Eric Sunshine wrote:
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.
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.
