GNU bug report logs - #60147
30.0.50; vc-prepare-patch: Add numbered patch file names

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Sean Whitton <spwhitton <at> spwhitton.name>

Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2022 05:42:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 30.0.50

Done: Sean Whitton <spwhitton <at> spwhitton.name>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #5 received at submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Sean Whitton <spwhitton <at> spwhitton.name>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 30.0.50; vc-prepare-patch: Add numbered patch file names
Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2022 05:40:58 +0000

[Message part 1 (text/plain, inline)]
X-debbugs-cc: philipk <at> posteo.net

Hello,

If you receive a message generated by vc-prepare-patch and then you save all
the attachments to a directory, you lose any indication of the order in which
the patches are meant to be applied.

git-format-patch(1) numbers the patch files it saves.  Thus, with most mail
clients, when the recipient saves all the attachments to a local directory,
they'll be ordered.  I think it would be useful for vc-prepare-patch to do
something similar.  Please find a patch attached.

--
Sean Whitton

[0001-vc-prepare-patch-Number-the-attached-patches.patch (text/x-diff, attachment)]
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