From: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy Date: Tue, 09 Jun 2009 23:14:14 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] format-patch: add --prefix to prepend a prefix to output file names Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <4A2E576D.704@op5.se> 2009/6/9 Andreas Ericsson : > Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy wrote: >> >> I use git to manages patches in my Gentoo development. In Gentoo, >> all ebuilds (another form of RPM spec) corresponding to different >> versions of the same package are grouped into one directory. So patches >> for each versions usually have a prefix to separate them from the ones >> for other versions. With --prefix it comes handy to produce such patches, >> for example: >> >> git format-patch --prefix dbus-1.2.3- HEAD~5 >> >> will generate patches for dbus-1.2.3 for me, all starting with >> "dbus-1.2.3-". >> >> This might be handy for RPM developers as well. >> > > I'm thinking this could be confused with '--subject-prefix' which was > given the long option to *not* confuse it with cover-letters and filename > prefixes. Any chance you could make it --filename-prefix instead? Since > it already lacks a short option, the extra typing will probably be worth > it to avoid unnecessary confusion. I made it --prefix because I see --suffix for file names already. Yes --filename-prefix may be less confusing than plain --prefix. -- Duy