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

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On 6/21/06, Stefan Richter <[email protected]> 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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