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

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Jun 14, 2009, 08:59 UTC
Message-ID: <7vd497qjhm.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <4A34B4ED.6060301@gmail.com>

Stephen Boyd <bebarino@gmail.com> writes:

> Also, this doesn't replace the numbering (0001, 0002, etc.) which I
> consider to be a prefix. Does anyone else feel the same way?

Isn't the point of the exercise to come up with something like:

      frotz-0001-first-patch-in-frotz-topic.patch
      frotz-0002-second-patch-in-frotz-topic.patch
      frotz-0003-third-patch-in-frotz-topic.patch

      nitfol-0001-first-patch-in-nitfol-topic.patch
      nitfol-0002-second-patch-in-nitfol-topic.patch

with two invocations of format-patch, and when they are dropped in the same directory, the patches from the same series clump together?

I personally do not think this is worth the additional code (you can easily run with --outdir=frotz and then with --outdir=nitfol and obtain frotz/000?-*.patch and nitfol/000?-*.patch to get the same clumping) but if the convention is to use dash instead of slash, the patch will save one step from users.