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Re: [PATCH] format-patch let -k override a config-specified format.numbered

From
Stephen Boyd <bebarino@gmail.com>
Date
May 8, 2009, 01:03 UTC
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Jim Meyering wrote:
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> This started when a colleague reported that "git rebase master" was failing
> with a "fatal: -n and -k are mutually exclusive".  Stephen Tweedie discovered
> that it was due to the format.numbered=true setting in ~/.gitconfig
> conflicting with the -k of the format-patch command run as part of
> the rebase operation.  Here's a fix.

I think the real fix here should be in rebase. We should be passing --no-numbered to format-patch. I was expecting 'format.subjectprefix' to trigger the same bug, but it seems we don't set subject_prefix=1 in this case. I imagine fixing that can be done in a later patch.

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