From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] format-patch: autonumber by default Date: Wed, 04 Nov 2009 03:20:05 -0800 Message-ID: References: <20081002205539.GA36768@Hermes> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Git List , Giuseppe Bilotta , Jakub Narebski , Johannes Schindelin , "Shawn O. Pearce" , Andreas Ericsson To: Brian Gernhardt X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Nov 04 12:20:22 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1N5duY-0007T0-1o for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:20:22 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755124AbZKDLUJ (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Nov 2009 06:20:09 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755055AbZKDLUJ (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Nov 2009 06:20:09 -0500 Received: from out02.mta.xmission.com ([166.70.13.232]:45679 "EHLO out02.mta.xmission.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754889AbZKDLUI (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Nov 2009 06:20:08 -0500 Received: from in02.mta.xmission.com ([166.70.13.52]) by out02.mta.xmission.com with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1N5duN-0000er-JC; Wed, 04 Nov 2009 04:20:11 -0700 Received: from c-76-21-114-89.hsd1.ca.comcast.net ([76.21.114.89] helo=fess.ebiederm.org) by in02.mta.xmission.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1N5duN-00027h-AL; Wed, 04 Nov 2009 04:20:11 -0700 Received: from fess.ebiederm.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fess.ebiederm.org (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-4) with ESMTP id nA4BK8bc030927; Wed, 4 Nov 2009 03:20:08 -0800 Received: (from eric@localhost) by fess.ebiederm.org (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id nA4BK5NO030867; Wed, 4 Nov 2009 03:20:05 -0800 In-Reply-To: <20081002205539.GA36768@Hermes> (Brian Gernhardt's message of "Thu\, 2 Oct 2008 16\:55\:39 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) X-XM-SPF: eid=;;;mid=;;;hst=in02.mta.xmission.com;;;ip=76.21.114.89;;;frm=ebiederm@xmission.com;;;spf=neutral X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 76.21.114.89 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: ebiederm@xmission.com X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2.1 (built Thu, 25 Oct 2007 00:26:12 +0000) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on in02.mta.xmission.com); Unknown failure Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Brian Gernhardt 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 > --- 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