On Friday, March 31, 2023 6:31 AM Peter Smith <smithpb2...@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi, > > It seems that lately, the patch attachments are lacking version numbers. It > causes unnecessary confusion. For example, I sometimes fetch patches from > this thread locally to "diff" them with previous patches to get a rough > overview > of the changes -- that has now become more difficult. > > Can you please reinstate the name convention of having version numbers for all > patch attachments? > > IMO *every* post that includes patches should unconditionally increment the > patch version -- even if the new patches are just a rebase or some other > trivial > change. Version numbers make it clear what patches are the latest, you will be > easily able to unambiguously refer to them by name in subsequent posts, and > when copied to your local computer they won't clash with any older copied > patches. The patch currently use date as the version number. I think the reason is that multiple people are working on the patch which cause the version numbers to be changed very frequently(soon becomes a very large number). So to avoid this , we used the date to distinguish different versions. Best Regards, Hou zj
