Re: [PATCH] git-format-patch: Number patches when there are more than one

From: Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>
Date: Nov 3, 2007, 16:03 UTC
Message-ID: <20071103160323.GA13284@glandium.org>
In-Reply-To: <472C9AFC.3000509@op5.se>

On Sat, Nov 03, 2007 at 04:59:56PM +0100, Andreas Ericsson wrote:

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> Mike Hommey wrote:
>> Automagically enable numbering if we output more than one patch.
>> Signed-off-by: Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>
>> ---
>> On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 10:44:12AM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> On Sun, 21 Oct 2007, Andreas Ericsson wrote:
>>>
>>>> [PATCH 1/1] looks a bit silly, and automagically handling this in 
>>>> git-format-patch makes some scripting around it a lot more pleasant.
>>> I think you should not use "-n" if you do not want to have the numbers.  
>>> In circumstances as yours, where you can have patch series larger than 
>>> one, I imagine that the "[PATCH 1/1]" bears an important information, 
>>> which is not present in "[PATCH]": this patch series contains only one 
>>> patch.
>>>
>>> IOW I do not like your patch: too much DWIDNS (Do What I Did NOT Say) for 
>>> me.
>> How about the contrary ?
>
> Works for me. How does one turn it off?

Does it make sense to turn it off ?

Mike