Re: [PATCH] Rearrange git-format-patch synopsis to improve clarity.

> David Symonds wrote:
> > Now that I look at it again, it seems the long options look quite
> > inconsistent. I think it should be either
> > --numbered-files/--no-numbered-files or --numbered/--no-numbered. My
> > preference is with the latter (for brevity), but that breaks
> > backward-compatibility.
> >
> > Would you accept a patch that changed --numbered-files to --numbered,
> > and kept the former as a synonym?
>
> There are two forms of numbered file output names:
> the traditional "0001-Foo-the-bar" and just "1" styles.
> Please don't break that.  Both are needed.