From: Junio C Hamano Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2012 08:33:25 GMT Subject: [PATCH 0/7] format-patch --reroll-count Message-ID: <1356165212-5611-1-git-send-email-gitster@pobox.com> The --reroll-count=$N option, when given a positive integer: - Adds " v$N" to the subject prefix specified. As the default subject prefix string is "PATCH", --reroll-count=2 makes it "PATCH v2". - Prefixes "v$N-" to the names used for output files. The cover letter, whose name is usually 0000-cover-letter.patch, becomes v2-0000-cover-letter.patch when given --reroll-count=2. This allows users to use the same --output-directory for multiple iterations of the same series, without letting the output for a newer round overwrite output files from the earlier rounds. The user can incorporate materials from earlier rounds to update the newly minted iteration, and use "send-email v2-*.patch" to send out the patches belonging to the second iteration easily. The early patches of this series are all preparatory clean-ups. I think reopen_stdout() also can be cleaned up, but I'll leave it to a future reroll. Junio C Hamano (7): builtin/log.c: drop unused "numbered" parameter from make_cover_letter() builtin/log.c: drop redundant "numbered_files" parameter from make_cover_letter() builtin/log.c: stop using global patch_suffix get_patch_filename(): simplify function signature get_patch_filename(): drop "just-numbers" hack get_patch_filename(): split into two functions format-patch: add --reroll-count=$N option builtin/log.c | 33 ++++++++++++++++++++++++--------- log-tree.c | 52 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------------- log-tree.h | 4 ++-- revision.h | 1 + 4 files changed, 58 insertions(+), 32 deletions(-) -- 1.8.0.6.gd28b5d4.dirty