Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> writes: > On Wed, 23 Aug 2006 17:04:58 +0100 > Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> wrote: > >> > Padding with zeros makes it even more useful: >> > >> > [PATCH 00/17] >> > [PATCH 01/17] >> > ... >> > [PATCH 17/17] >> >> To be honest I utterly hate that convention > > It's so they'll correctly alphasort at the recipient's end. > > I doubt if many MUAs do numeric sorting.. I wonder if 'git-format-patch --numbered' should be updated to do the zero padding. Right now we don't. It should be a trivial patch to do if somebody is so inclined (it is around ll.133 in log-tree.c). - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.htmlReceived on Fri Aug 25 03:38:59 2006
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