Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] format-patch: new --resend option for adding "RESEND" to patch subjects

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2024 09:21:44 -0700

Eric Sunshine <[email-masked]> writes:

>> ..., but the value you seem to be missing of the separate "--rfc"
>> is that there are folks who configure something other than "PATCH"
>> to "format.subjectPrefix".  They do not want to keep typing
>> --subject-prefix="PATCH net-next" on the command line, so they use
>> the configuration variable, which is "set it once and forget".  The
>> stress is on the fact that they can forget about it.
>
> Indeed. I was unaware of that behavior.

The very original --rfc did overwrote --subject-prefix and did not
have a good reason to exist.  But with the relatively recent update,
it gained its usefulness.

Thanks.