SV: Flagging stable patches

[Matt Mackall]

On Mon, 2009-07-13 at 12:53 +0200, Benoit Boissinot wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 11:57 AM, Nicolas Dumazet<nicdumz at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 2009/7/13 Martin Geisler <mg at lazybytes.net>:
> >>> Martin Geisler wrote:
> >>> Wouldn't hg email --subject "(stable) foo: don't crash" ... be
> >>> adequate for this without having to mangle the actual commit message?
> >
> > I think that it would be enough.
> 
> I'd prefer something like:
> 
> [PATCH] [STABLE] ... as subject

I think I favor

[PATCH( .*)?]

That might even work with hg import today. So we can have

[PATCH 0 of 3 STABLE]
[PATCH RFC]
[PATCH i18n]
etc.

I think something like:

hg email --flag stable --flag i18n 

is a reasonable interface.

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