From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: Brian Gernhardt <benji@silverinsanity.com>
Cc: Git List <git@vger.kernel.org>,
Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>,
Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>,
Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>,
"Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>,
Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] format-patch: autonumber by default
Date: Wed, 04 Nov 2009 03:20:05 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1ws261qqi.fsf@fess.ebiederm.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081002205539.GA36768@Hermes> (Brian Gernhardt's message of "Thu\, 2 Oct 2008 16\:55\:39 -0400")
Brian Gernhardt <benji@silverinsanity.com> writes:
> format-patch is most commonly used for multiple patches at once when
> sending a patchset, in which case we want to number the patches; on
> the other hand, single patches are not usually expected to be
> numbered.
>
> In other words, the typical behavior expected from format-patch is the
> one obtained by enabling autonumber, so we set it to be the default.
>
> Users that want to disable numbering for a particular patchset can do
> so with the existing -N command-line switch. Users that want to
> change the default behavior can use the format.numbering config key.
>
> Signed-off-by: Brian Gernhardt <benji@silverinsanity.com>
> ---
Grumble. I updated git last night and this change just bit me.
Grumble.
Grumble.
It is probably a good change, but it was unexpected.
Grumble. Grumble. Grumble.
Eric
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-04 11:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-02 11:27 [PATCH] format-patch: autonumber by default Giuseppe Bilotta
2008-10-02 12:33 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-10-02 13:10 ` Giuseppe Bilotta
2008-10-02 13:42 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-10-02 13:47 ` Giuseppe Bilotta
2008-10-02 14:08 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-10-02 14:14 ` Andreas Ericsson
2008-10-02 17:58 ` Giuseppe Bilotta
2008-10-02 20:03 ` Jeff King
2008-10-02 20:15 ` Giuseppe Bilotta
2008-10-02 21:06 ` Jeff King
2008-10-02 20:17 ` Brian Gernhardt
2008-10-02 20:36 ` Brian Gernhardt
2008-10-02 20:41 ` Brian Gernhardt
2008-10-02 20:50 ` Brian Gernhardt
2008-10-02 20:55 ` [PATCH v2] " Brian Gernhardt
2009-11-04 11:20 ` Eric W. Biederman [this message]
2009-11-04 17:38 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-11-04 17:48 ` Brian Gernhardt
2008-10-02 13:43 ` [PATCH] " Andreas Ericsson
2008-10-02 13:54 ` Johannes Sixt
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