Giuseppe Bilotta schrieb: > Now, about the reason for this patch: I would say that the most common > use-case of format-patch being used to prepare multiple patches is > when one plans on sending a patchset. When format.numbering is set to > auto, single-patches will still be extracted without numbers, but > patchset will be properly numbered. > > Of course, there may be cases where one doesn't want numbering (for > which there is the -N flag already), and of course we want to give the > user the choice to disable autonumbering at the config level, for > which there is the new noauto option for format.numbering. I recall that this has been discussed (months or years ago), but I don't recall whether there was a conclusion or whether the change was dismissed. Did you research the ML archives? -- Hannes -- To unsubscribe from this list: 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