Re: [PATCH] git-format-patch: Don't number patches when there's only one

[Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>]

Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, 22 Oct 2007, Andreas Ericsson wrote:
> 
>> Johannes Schindelin wrote:
>>
>>> On Sun, 21 Oct 2007, Andreas Ericsson wrote:
>>>
>>>> [PATCH 1/1] looks a bit silly, and automagically handling this in 
>>>> git-format-patch makes some scripting around it a lot more pleasant.
>>> I think you should not use "-n" if you do not want to have the 
>>> numbers.
>> This stems from creating scripts around it where I only want to see the 
>> numbers if there is more than a single patch. Currently I can't do that 
>> without running git-format-patch twice or re-implementing the revision 
>> parsing machinery to count revisions prior to passing arguments to 
>> format-patch.
> 
> Why not have something as simple as
> 
> 	numbered=
> 	test $(git rev-list $options | wc -l) -gt 1 && numbered=-n
> 

Because 23498~12 != 23498~12..HEAD to git rev-list, but it is to
git-format-patch, meaning I'll have to duplicate the logic in every 
script that's supposed to use it or risk introducing a third way of 
specifying a list of revisions.

> 	[...]
> 
> 	git format-patch $numbered $options
> 
> At the moment, the semantics of "--numbered" is really clear and precise.  
> And I really like that.  It makes for less surprises.
> 

Semantics could be equally clear for --numbered-if-multiple.

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