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

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

[Jeff Anderson-Lee]

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.

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.

Comments?

Jeff Anderson-Lee

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

[Stefan Richter]

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.
-- 
Stefan Richter
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Re: [RFC] suggestion [PATCH N/M] subject lines

[Antonio Vargas]

On 6/21/06, Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de> 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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