Re: git-format-patch --subject-prefix support.

From: Julian Phillips <julian@quantumfyre.co.uk>
Date: Apr 12, 2007, 00:54 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0704120150320.22924@beast.quantumfyre.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <7vodlumntw.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Wed, 11 Apr 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> "Robin H\. Johnson" <robbat2@gentoo.org> writes:
>
>> Add a new option to git-format-patch, entitled --subject-prefix that allows
>> control of the subject prefix '[PATCH]'. Using this option, the text 'PATCH' is
>> replaced with whatever input is provided to the option. This allows easily
>> generating patches like '[PATCH 2.6.21-rc3]' or properly numbered series like
>> '[-mm3 PATCH N/M]'.
>>
>> 1/2 - Implementation and documentation
>> 2/2 - Test case
>
> I suspect this is a job for send-email, not format-patch.  List?

Surely though, send-email is simply a helper for sending patches generated by format-patch? Is there any reason to deny the ability to set the prefix to those who don't use send-email but do use format-patch? (Personally I found send-email to be cumbersome and confusing, so I've stopped using it ...)

It's format-patch that applies the current "[PATCH]" prefix anyway ...

-- 
Julian

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