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From: "David Symonds" <dsymonds@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Rearrange git-format-patch synopsis to improve clarity.
Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2007 09:32:25 +1100
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On 11/5/07, David Symonds <dsymonds@gmail.com> wrote:
>                     [-s | --signoff] [<common diff options>]
> -                   [--start-number <n>] [--numbered-files]
> +                   [-n | --numbered-files | -N | --no-numbered]
> +                   [--start-number <n>]

Now that I look at it again, it seems the long options look quite
inconsistent. I think it should be either
--numbered-files/--no-numbered-files or --numbered/--no-numbered. My
preference is with the latter (for brevity), but that breaks
backward-compatibility.

Would you accept a patch that changed --numbered-files to --numbered,
and kept the former as a synonym?


Dave.