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From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
To: Jon Loeliger <jdl@freescale.com>
Cc: Git List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add the --numbered-files option to git-format-patch.
Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2007 00:50:25 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vps497c8u.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1181074013.2585.14.camel@ld0161-tx32> (Jon Loeliger's message of "Tue, 05 Jun 2007 15:06:53 -0500")

Jon Loeliger <jdl@freescale.com> writes:

> With this option, git-format-patch will generate simple
> numbered files as output instead of the default using
> with the first commit line appended.
>
> This simplifies the ability to generate an MH-style
> drafts folder with each message to be sent.

I'll take the patch but wouldn't something like:

	git-format-patch --stdout $args |
        FILENO=7 formail -s sh -c 'cat >.junk/$FILENO'

be equivalent to

	git-format-patch -o .junk/ --numbered-files --start-number=7 $args

and more flexible?

      reply	other threads:[~2007-06-06  7:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-06-05 20:06 [PATCH] Add the --numbered-files option to git-format-patch Jon Loeliger
2007-06-06  7:50 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]

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