Mike Hommey wrote:
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> On Sat, Nov 03, 2007 at 04:59:56PM +0100, Andreas Ericsson wrote:
>> Mike Hommey wrote:
>>> Automagically enable numbering if we output more than one patch.
>>> Signed-off-by: Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>
>>> ---
>>> On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 10:44:12AM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> On Sun, 21 Oct 2007, Andreas Ericsson wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> [PATCH 1/1] looks a bit silly, and automagically handling this in 
>>>>> git-format-patch makes some scripting around it a lot more pleasant.
>>>> I think you should not use "-n" if you do not want to have the numbers.  
>>>> In circumstances as yours, where you can have patch series larger than 
>>>> one, I imagine that the "[PATCH 1/1]" bears an important information, 
>>>> which is not present in "[PATCH]": this patch series contains only one 
>>>> patch.
>>>>
>>>> IOW I do not like your patch: too much DWIDNS (Do What I Did NOT Say) for 
>>>> me.
>>> How about the contrary ?
>> Works for me. How does one turn it off?
> 
> Does it make sense to turn it off ?
> 

Sometimes, yes. I frequently gather several small fixes on a branch and then
send all of them at once. They rarely depend on each other, and apply order
is usually not important, so it doesn't make sense to order them.

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