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bug#58383: 29.0.50; Make it easier to invert vc-prepare-patches-separate
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Sean Whitton |
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bug#58383: 29.0.50; Make it easier to invert vc-prepare-patches-separately |
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Mon, 07 Nov 2022 16:06:29 -0700 |
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Hello,
On Sun 09 Oct 2022 at 12:54PM GMT, Philip Kaludercic wrote:
> Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> writes:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> How about a prefix argument to vc-prepare-patch to invert one's usual
>> setting for vc-prepare-patches-separately? Most people who contribute
>> to more than one project regularly will want to use both.
>
> How would this be preferable to setting `vc-prepare-patches-separately'
> as a directory local variable? That way you don't have to remember to
> use a prefix argument whenever invoking `vc-prepare-patch'.
Makes sense.
>> On the other hand, having a numeric prefix argument mean "send patches
>> correspoding to the top N revisions of the current branch" would be very
>> convenient. Perhaps these two could be combined by using a negative
>> number to mean also invert?
>
> This is the usual problem with numeric prefix arguments. You don't get
> that much expressivity with just an integer.
>
> That is why I would hesitate to assign any particular interpretation to
> prefix arguments, before considering and weighing the options.
Well, any other options in mind? Varying the -N argument to
git-format-patch/git-send-email is what I find myself using the most.
--
Sean Whitton
- bug#58383: 29.0.50; Make it easier to invert vc-prepare-patches-separately, Philip Kaludercic, 2022/11/04
- bug#58383: 29.0.50; Make it easier to invert vc-prepare-patches-separately,
Sean Whitton <=
- bug#58383: 29.0.50; Make it easier to invert vc-prepare-patches-separately, Philip Kaludercic, 2022/11/08
- bug#58383: 29.0.50; Make it easier to invert vc-prepare-patches-separately, Sean Whitton, 2022/11/08
- bug#58383: 29.0.50; Make it easier to invert vc-prepare-patches-separately, Philip Kaludercic, 2022/11/09
- bug#58383: 29.0.50; Make it easier to invert vc-prepare-patches-separately, Sean Whitton, 2022/11/09
- bug#58383: 29.0.50; Make it easier to invert vc-prepare-patches-separately, Philip Kaludercic, 2022/11/09
- bug#58383: 29.0.50; Make it easier to invert vc-prepare-patches-separately, Sean Whitton, 2022/11/09
- bug#58383: 29.0.50; Make it easier to invert vc-prepare-patches-separately, Philip Kaludercic, 2022/11/10
- bug#58383: 29.0.50; Make it easier to invert vc-prepare-patches-separately, Sean Whitton, 2022/11/10
- bug#58383: 29.0.50; Make it easier to invert vc-prepare-patches-separately, Philip Kaludercic, 2022/11/11
- bug#58383: 29.0.50; Make it easier to invert vc-prepare-patches-separately, Sean Whitton, 2022/11/11