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$N-" to the names used for output files. The cover letter, whose name is usually 0000-cover-letter.patch, becomes v2-0000-cover-letter.patch when given --reroll-count=2.
This allows users to use the same --output-directory for multiple iterations of the same series, without letting the output for a newer round overwrite output files from the earlier rounds. The user can incorporate materials from earlier rounds to update the newly minted iteration, and use "send-email v2-*.patch" to send out the patches belonging to the second iteration easily.
The early patches of this series are all preparatory clean-ups. I think reopen_stdout() also can be cleaned up, but I'll leave it to a future reroll.
Junio C Hamano (7):
builtin/log.c: drop unused "numbered" parameter from
make_cover_letter()
builtin/log.c: drop redundant "numbered_files" parameter from
make_cover_letter()
builtin/log.c: stop using global patch_suffix
get_patch_filename(): simplify function signature
get_patch_filename(): drop "just-numbers" hack
get_patch_filename(): split into two functions
format-patch: add --reroll-count=$N optionbuiltin/log.c | 33 ++++++++++++++++++++++++--------- log-tree.c | 52 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------------- log-tree.h | 4 ++-- revision.h | 1 + 4 files changed, 58 insertions(+), 32 deletions(-)
-- 1.8.0.6.gd28b5d4.dirty