Re: [PATCH] format-patch: autonumber by default

From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Oct 2, 2008, 14:08 UTC
Message-ID: <200810021608.54287.jnareb@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <1222955278-16908-1-git-send-email-giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>

Giuseppe Bilotta wrote:

> format-patch is most commoly used for multiple patches at once when

s/commoly/commonly/;

I'm not sure about 'most' there...

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> sending a patchset, in which case we want to number the patches; on the
> other hand, single-patches are not usually expected to be numbered.
> 
> The typical behavior expected by format-patch is therefore the one
> obtained by enabling autonumber, which should therefore be the default.
> 
> Users that want to disable numbering for a particular patchset can do so
> with the existing -N command-line switch. For users that want to change
> the default behavior we provide a 'noauto' option for the
> format.numbering config key.

Nice. I like it.

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland