{"thread":{"id":"28948","subject":"feature request: git format-patch - allow --suffix to work with --numbered-files","startedAt":"2011-11-16T13:02:52Z","lastAt":"2011-11-16T13:02:52Z","messageCount":1,"participants":["MikeW"],"isPatch":false,"patchVersion":null,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"179586","messageId":"loom.20111116T135509-236@post.gmane.org","threadId":"28948","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"feature request: git format-patch - allow --suffix to work with --numbered-files","fromName":"MikeW","fromEmail":"mw_phil@yahoo.co.uk","sentAt":"2011-11-16T13:02:52Z","receivedAt":"2011-11-16T13:02:52Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"mw_phil@yahoo.co.uk","avatar":null},"body":"\"Numbered files\" is good for creating patches with uniform filenames, rather\nthan verbose filenames containing part of the commit message, but if working for\nexample with submodules, there is possible name collision if pooling the patches\nin one place.\n\nI thought that --suffix=$name would be a good way to disambiguate but found that\n--numbered-files wins and kills any suffix.\n\nHence suggestion that --suffix used with --numbered-files is allowed to generate\na filename suffix as it does when not in \"numbered files\" mode.\n\nIn the absence of a --suffix command, the behaviour would be as now.\n"}]}