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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add the --numbered-files option to git-format-patch.
Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2007 00:50:25 -0700
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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?