From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 06:26:49 GMT
Subject: Re: git-format-patch possible regressions
Message-ID: <e56734$nj7$1@sea.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <7v4pzdqpit.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Junio C Hamano wrote:

> So the way for qgit to use it would become something like this.
> Instead of giving a list of ranges like "a..b c..d e..f":
> 
>  * Run "format-patch a..b"; by reading from its stdout you know
>    what patches you got -- you count them.
> 
>  * Run "format-patch --start-number=6 c..d" (if you got 5 out of
>    a..b);
[...]

I still think that having _shortcut notation_ being different for very
different commands is not a bad idea.

If one is really concerned about consistency of rev-list options, we could
use ',' or something to separate separate lists of commits, e.g.

   git format-patch a..b , c..d , e..f

or

   git format-patch a..b --then c..d --then e..f

What do you think about the idea?

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland