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

From: Jon Loeliger <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2007 09:01:22 -0600

David Symonds wrote:
> On 11/5/07, David Symonds <[email-masked]> wrote:
>>                     [-s | --signoff] [<common diff options>]
>> -                   [--start-number <n>] [--numbered-files]
>> +                   [-n | --numbered-files | -N | --no-numbered]
>> +                   [--start-number <n>]
> 
> 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.

Thanks,
jdl