From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jakub Narebski Subject: Re: [PATCH] format-patch: autonumber by default Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2008 16:08:53 +0200 Message-ID: <200810021608.54287.jnareb@gmail.com> References: <1222955278-16908-1-git-send-email-giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-2" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Johannes Schindelin , "Shawn O. Pearce" To: Giuseppe Bilotta X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Oct 02 16:13:03 2008 connect(): Connection refused Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KlOsd-0002iZ-K1 for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Thu, 02 Oct 2008 16:10:12 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752516AbYJBOJA (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Oct 2008 10:09:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752508AbYJBOJA (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Oct 2008 10:09:00 -0400 Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com ([64.233.182.190]:55929 "EHLO nf-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752501AbYJBOI7 (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Oct 2008 10:08:59 -0400 Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id d3so425077nfc.21 for ; Thu, 02 Oct 2008 07:08:57 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; bh=JCaz2FUI4Mofe8sRtk70j8oT/Ch2RN6PFTMe3CuLTFk=; b=lsy5mxh4SKIhU+G2Lgo8ok8pYGRjZdz+2n9GZj2pkkfNQw/+e3jcW/IUnenM5c2VAv Kxs+QqPHdYFdD/HMJ83Ly+s660SjW7RVHeGoFt/+wlCvKanPI3sKGg/mL7bFiDE4bTC8 2muUlunrcBYlusK09KQdpGal0cRW41UWf8bZ0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding :content-disposition:message-id; b=e79i1nZmaA0taIYbp05gitqH2gjZAW6URx1QPYBi77Pl/GcLtu9yZIYzed30KUfmmZ GWRA06x/UudJQZ8ChQWRDuPepAG1heGfy7LsFUGUwaD5Bv/bNOAqrTWPCz24i1QuAjQh AGCzdwSAL+ppiJDNm85f9fMzFllsliA3SKzWo= Received: by 10.210.113.16 with SMTP id l16mr11468180ebc.85.1222956537913; Thu, 02 Oct 2008 07:08:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.1.11? (abwk221.neoplus.adsl.tpnet.pl [83.8.234.221]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id z33sm1913421ikz.0.2008.10.02.07.08.55 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 02 Oct 2008 07:08:56 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: KMail/1.9.3 In-Reply-To: <1222955278-16908-1-git-send-email-giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Giuseppe Bilotta wrote: > format-patch is most commoly used for multiple patches at once when s/commoly/commonly/; I'm not sure about 'most' there... > 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. > > The typical behavior expected by format-patch is therefore the one > obtained by enabling autonumber, which should therefore be the default. > > Users that want to disable numbering for a particular patchset can do so > with the existing -N command-line switch. For users that want to change > the default behavior we provide a 'noauto' option for the > format.numbering config key. Nice. I like it. -- Jakub Narebski Poland