From: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 01 Jan 2013 03:04:36 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] format-patch --reroll-count
Message-ID: <CACsJy8D5Ch2W-tfV6+UuyEzxtL_5E3rkffnZc5AO9yrMDJsaXQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <1356165212-5611-1-git-send-email-gitster@pobox.com>

On Sat, Dec 22, 2012 at 3:33 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> The --reroll-count=$N option, when given a positive integer:
>
>  - Adds " v$N" to the subject prefix specified.  As the default
>    subject prefix string is "PATCH", --reroll-count=2 makes it
>    "PATCH v2".
>
>  - Prefixes "v$N-" to the names used for output files.  The cover
>    letter, whose name is usually 0000-cover-letter.patch, becomes
>    v2-0000-cover-letter.patch when given --reroll-count=2.

On the same subject of format-patch improvements, perhaps we should also:

   - Keep subject line in branch.%s.description too. No point in
     keeping writing the subject on every reroll.

   - Perhaps an option to save the current tip in reflog with reroll
     count so one can easily diff between two rerolls.
-- 
Duy