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 option
builtin/log.c | 33 ++++++++++++++++++++++++---------
log-tree.c | 52 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------------
log-tree.h | 4 ++--
revision.h | 1 +
4 files changed, 58 insertions(+), 32 deletions(-)
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