Re: [RFC] suggestion [PATCH N/M] subject lines

[Antonio Vargas]

On 6/21/06, Stefan Richter <stefanr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Jeff Anderson-Lee wrote:
> > Reading the mailing list with a non-threads compatible
> > mail client agent would be made much easier if the
> > convention for subject lines for multi-part patches was
> > changed to the following:
> >
> >       patch set name [PATCH N/M] patch summary
> >
> > Then sorting by subject would group all patches for the
> > Same patch set together.
>
> A workaround is to sort by (1.) author + (2.) date. Should help in many
> cases.
>
> > I don't know if these Subject lines are hand generated, or if there
> > is software involved that would have to me modified for generating
> > and/or parsing them.
>
> All of it is true.

There is at least a built-in command to akpm's patch management
scripts which genrates patch-bombs:

http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/patch-scripts-0.20/docco.txt

thus maybe its descendant "quilt" also does have


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