Re: [PATCH v2] format-patch: autonumber by default

ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) writes:

Brian Gernhardt [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

format-patch is most commonly used for multiple patches at once when
sending a patchset, in which case we want to number the patches; on
the other hand, single patches are not usually expected to be
numbered.

In other words, the typical behavior expected from format-patch is the
one obtained by enabling autonumber, so we set it to be the default.

Users that want to disable numbering for a particular patchset can do
so with the existing -N command-line switch.  Users that want to
change the default behavior can use the format.numbering config key.

Signed-off-by: Brian Gernhardt <redacted>
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Grumble.  I updated git last night and this change just bit me.
Grumble.
Grumble.

It is probably a good change, but it was unexpected.
Grumble. Grumble. Grumble.

That change was in 1.6.1.1 or so, no?  Welcome to year 2009 ;-)

Out of curiousity, which version did you update _from_?