Re: [PATCH] format-patch: add --prefix to prepend a prefix to output file names

From: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
Date: Jun 9, 2009, 12:37 UTC
Message-ID: <4A2E576D.704@op5.se>
In-Reply-To: <1244547227-6466-1-git-send-email-pclouds@gmail.com>

Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy wrote:

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> I use git to manages patches in my Gentoo development. In Gentoo,
> all ebuilds (another form of RPM spec) corresponding to different
> versions of the same package are grouped into one directory. So patches
> for each versions usually have a prefix to separate them from the ones
> for other versions. With --prefix it comes handy to produce such patches,
> for example:
> 
> git format-patch --prefix dbus-1.2.3- HEAD~5
> 
> will generate patches for dbus-1.2.3 for me, all starting with "dbus-1.2.3-".
> 
> This might be handy for RPM developers as well.
>

I'm thinking this could be confused with '--subject-prefix' which was given the long option to *not* confuse it with cover-letters and filename prefixes. Any chance you could make it --filename-prefix instead? Since it already lacks a short option, the extra typing will probably be worth it to avoid unnecessary confusion.

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