Re: Using really empty start prefixes for git-format-patch numbered patches?

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: May 30, 2011, 19:19 UTC
Message-ID: <7voc2km1xh.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20110530141905.GA31490@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> I don't think there is currently a way to do what you want short of
> post-processing the output of format-patch. You can use "-k" to preserve
> the subject, but then you don't get the "1/2" that you want.

You would unconditionally get "[" and "]" that you may or may not want and there is no way to change it to "(1/2)" or "1 of 2: "; unless we shoot for a completely flexible solution, we need to draw a line somewhere.

It was not optimal in the hindsight to draw the line where the prefix is customizable, while always assuming that people would want some prefix, perhaps.

> So I think we should do this:

Yes, ...

> ... under the assumption that nobody
> actually wants "[ 1/2]".

which I think is a reasonable thing to do.

Will queue; thanks.