{"thread":{"id":"5376","subject":"Re: [PATCH 1/18] 2.6.17.9 perfmon2 patch for review: introduction","startedAt":"2006-08-24T17:38:24Z","lastAt":"2006-08-24T17:38:24Z","messageCount":1,"participants":["Junio C Hamano"],"isPatch":true,"patchVersion":1,"patchTotal":18},"messages":[{"id":"25852","messageId":"7vac5u9gq7.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net","threadId":"5376","inReplyTo":"20060823115857.89f8d47b.akpm@osdl.org","subject":"Re: [PATCH 1/18] 2.6.17.9 perfmon2 patch for review: introduction","fromName":"Junio C Hamano","fromEmail":"junkio@cox.net","sentAt":"2006-08-24T17:38:24Z","receivedAt":"2006-08-24T17:38:24Z","isPatch":true,"sender":{"key":"gitster@pobox.com","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/54884?v=4"},"body":"Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> writes:\n\n> On Wed, 23 Aug 2006 17:04:58 +0100\n> Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> wrote:\n>\n>> > Padding with zeros makes it even more useful:\n>> > \n>> > \t[PATCH 00/17]\n>> > \t[PATCH 01/17]\n>> > \t\t...\n>> > \t[PATCH 17/17]\n>> \n>> To be honest I utterly hate that convention\n>\n> It's so they'll correctly alphasort at the recipient's end.\n>\n> I doubt if many MUAs do numeric sorting..\n\nI wonder if 'git-format-patch --numbered' should be updated to\ndo the zero padding.  Right now we don't.\n\nIt should be a trivial patch to do if somebody is so inclined\n(it is around ll.133 in log-tree.c).\n"}]}