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From: Jon Loeliger <jdl@freescale.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Rearrange git-format-patch synopsis to improve clarity.
Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2007 09:01:22 -0600
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Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
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David Symonds wrote:
> On 11/5/07, David Symonds <dsymonds@gmail.com> wrote:
>>                     [-s | --signoff] [<common diff options>]
>> -                   [--start-number <n>] [--numbered-files]
>> +                   [-n | --numbered-files | -N | --no-numbered]
>> +                   [--start-number <n>]
> 
> Now that I look at it again, it seems the long options look quite
> inconsistent. I think it should be either
> --numbered-files/--no-numbered-files or --numbered/--no-numbered. My
> preference is with the latter (for brevity), but that breaks
> backward-compatibility.
> 
> Would you accept a patch that changed --numbered-files to --numbered,
> and kept the former as a synonym?

There are two forms of numbered file output names:
the traditional "0001-Foo-the-bar" and just "1" styles.
Please don't break that.  Both are needed.

Thanks,
jdl