From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Cc: "git\@vger.kernel.org" <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] send-email: detect and offer to skip backup files
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2016 18:38:13 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqvb3ml24a.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGZ79kZ+_JW-5BWdXse++_KaATO+qDhNtTz_k5gX507sObZyzA@mail.gmail.com> (Stefan Beller's message of "Tue, 12 Apr 2016 16:05:21 -0700")
Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> writes:
> Once I made the mistake to not remove a previous patch series I had,
> such that there was:
>
> 0000-coverletter.patch (newly worded)
> 0001-bla-from-new-series
> 0001-foo-from-old-series
> 0002-...
> ...
>
> `git send-email 0*` then sent out a totally bogus series for me.
>
> As another user friendly helper we could warn/abort if the first <n> characters
> are the same as the previous patch as well?
I think that would be one of the many things that can be built on
top. For example, you could notice that all messages begin with
4-digit and a dash, and send such a set to a special case (where
patches having duplicated numbers are signalled as a potential
error).
prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-04-13 1:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-04-12 22:53 [PATCH] send-email: detect and offer to skip backup files Junio C Hamano
2016-04-12 23:00 ` Eric Sunshine
2016-04-13 1:36 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-04-12 23:05 ` Stefan Beller
2016-04-13 1:38 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
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