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From: Jamie Border <jborder@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: StGit patchname numeric prefix?
Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2007 16:31:56 +0100
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Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> writes:

> Jamie Border <jborder@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Is there a switch to have stgit prepend a numeric prefix to the
>> patch name?
>>
>> I'm trying to stg uncommit -n <large_number> from a repository, and
>> due to the excellent log messages, half of the patches get called
>> 'empty-log-message'.
>>
>> I'm sure when I played with stg a while ago I found a switch to do
>> that.
>
> It automatically adds a suffix if a patch with the same name already
> exists, i.e. empty-log-message-0, -1, ..., -n. No extra switch is
> needed.
>
> What StGIT version are you using?

0.11, which doesn't do that <g>.

Just changed to 0.12, which works great.

Many thanks, saved me hours and hours :-)

Jamie

>
> -- 
> Catalin