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Subject: Re: [PATCH] format-patch: add --filename-prefix to prepend a prefix to output file names
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Stephen Boyd <bebarino@gmail.com> writes:

> Also, this doesn't replace the numbering (0001, 0002, etc.) which I
> consider to be a prefix. Does anyone else feel the same way?

Isn't the point of the exercise to come up with something like:

      frotz-0001-first-patch-in-frotz-topic.patch
      frotz-0002-second-patch-in-frotz-topic.patch
      frotz-0003-third-patch-in-frotz-topic.patch

      nitfol-0001-first-patch-in-nitfol-topic.patch
      nitfol-0002-second-patch-in-nitfol-topic.patch

with two invocations of format-patch, and when they are dropped in the
same directory, the patches from the same series clump together?

I personally do not think this is worth the additional code (you can
easily run with --outdir=frotz and then with --outdir=nitfol and obtain
frotz/000?-*.patch and nitfol/000?-*.patch to get the same clumping) but
if the convention is to use dash instead of slash, the patch will save one
step from users.