From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/18] 2.6.17.9 perfmon2 patch for review: introduction
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cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>,
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Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2006 10:38:24 -0700
In-Reply-To: <20060823115857.89f8d47b.akpm@osdl.org> (Andrew Morton's message
	of "Wed, 23 Aug 2006 11:58:57 -0700")
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Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> writes:

> On Wed, 23 Aug 2006 17:04:58 +0100
> Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> wrote:
>
>> > Padding with zeros makes it even more useful:
>> > 
>> > 	[PATCH 00/17]
>> > 	[PATCH 01/17]
>> > 		...
>> > 	[PATCH 17/17]
>> 
>> To be honest I utterly hate that convention
>
> It's so they'll correctly alphasort at the recipient's end.
>
> I doubt if many MUAs do numeric sorting..

I wonder if 'git-format-patch --numbered' should be updated to
do the zero padding.  Right now we don't.

It should be a trivial patch to do if somebody is so inclined
(it is around ll.133 in log-tree.c).

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