Re: [PATCH] format-patch: autonumber by default

["Giuseppe Bilotta" <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 2:33 PM, Johannes Schindelin
<Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, 2 Oct 2008, Giuseppe Bilotta wrote:
>
>> Set auto-number true by default, allowing the format.number key to be
>> set to 'noauto' to override this.
>> ---
>>  builtin-log.c |    6 +++++-
>>  1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> Interesting.  No sign-off, no defense why this is actually desirable,
> after we lived for so long without this behavior... Care to elaborate?

Doh, sorry about the Sign-off, I'll resend with.

Now, about the reason for this patch: I would say that the most common
use-case of format-patch being used to prepare multiple patches is
when one plans on sending a patchset. When format.numbering is set to
auto, single-patches will still be extracted without numbers, but
patchset will be properly numbered.

Of course, there may be cases where one doesn't want numbering (for
which there is the -N flag already), and of course we want to give the
user the choice to disable autonumbering at the config level, for
which there is the new noauto option for format.numbering.

If this explanation is good enough for you, I'll plop it in the resend
message too :)

-- 
Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta