Subject: Re: [PATCH] format-patch: autonumber by default

From: Jakub Narebski <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2008 16:08:53 +0200

Giuseppe Bilotta wrote:
> format-patch is most commoly used for multiple patches at once when

s/commoly/commonly/;

I'm not sure about 'most' there...

> sending a patchset, in which case we want to number the patches; on the
> other hand, single-patches are not usually expected to be numbered.
> 
> The typical behavior expected by format-patch is therefore the one
> obtained by enabling autonumber, which should therefore be the default.
> 
> Users that want to disable numbering for a particular patchset can do so
> with the existing -N command-line switch. For users that want to change
> the default behavior we provide a 'noauto' option for the
> format.numbering config key.

Nice. I like it.
-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland