"Marco Costalba" <mcostalba@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > I was thinking, probably wrong, that the number prepended in file name > is used also to disambiguate two patches with the same subject. What Johannes and I were discussing was the other number -- the total in the series. IOW, y in "[PATCH x/y]". OTOH, the number used for disambiguation you care about is x, which is made adjustable with --start-number patch. So the way for qgit to use it would become something like this. Instead of giving a list of ranges like "a..b c..d e..f": * Run "format-patch a..b"; by reading from its stdout you know what patches you got -- you count them. * Run "format-patch --start-number=6 c..d" (if you got 5 out of a..b); * Run "format-patch --start-number=n e..f" (now you know the drill). Then the sequence out of c..d would start with a file 0006-xxxx.txt, which is what you want for disambiguation. - : send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html