On Tue, Oct 7, 2025 at 8:58 AM Robert Sparks <[email protected]> wrote:

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> On 10/7/25 1:35 PM, Eric Rescorla wrote:
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> On Tue, Oct 7, 2025 at 11:22 AM Eliot Lear <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> Hi Eric,
>> On 07.10.2025 20:09, Eric Rescorla wrote:
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>>
>> I'm struggling to understand the concern here, given that the
>> current approved email flow involves the editors sending
>> text in OLD/NEW format, which is essentially what GitHub
>> suggestions are. There's no ambiguity about the desired
>> new state and if they are committed it's trivial to see what
>> changed.
>>
>>
>> That's not ENTIRELY the case (so to speak).  Sometimes there are some
>> global changes with cassification, spelling and such, requiring rebasing,
>> etc.
>>
> Are you talking about cases in which the RPC made some change
> that the author wants reversed globally?
>
> No, I think he's talking about places where the authors are asking for a
> change in lots of places by writing one sentence in the current auth48
> response rather than using and OLD/NEW for each instance.
>

That works fine here, though.  You just don't use ```suggestion for it.
You just add a comment that says "Everywhere that you say Blue, say Red
instead", and the RPC adds a commit doing s/Blue/Red/g.

--RLB



>
> Yes, I agree that in that
> case you wouldn't use suggestions. But you also wouldn't attach
> a PR update, you would tell the RPC in text to reverse it.
>
> I don't see why this would require a rebase, though.
>
>
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>> I'm *fully confident* the RPC is up to managing that, btw, in terms of
>> finding the best work flow (like maybe ordering PR processing).  And I
>> don't want to make a mountain out of a mole hill, but there will probably
>> be times when ```suggestion doesn't QUITE cut it, and we shouldn't rely on
>> it as the only means for changes.
>>
> Nor am I suggesting that.
>
> -Ekr
>
>
> Regards,
>>
>> Eliot
>>
>>
>>
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