patchbomb flags

Ludovic Chabant ludovic at chabant.com
Tue Apr 2 05:01:02 UTC 2019


Hey there,

When contributing to a project by email (using patchbomb's `hg email` command) it's common to send revisions with a V2/V3/etc. flag in the subject. Additionally, when contributing via a mailing list that serves multiple projects, it's common to also add the project's name as a flag in the subject too (so you might end up with "[PATCH foobar V2] My bug fix").
How do people typically do that last bit automatically? (adding the "foobar" flag)

It feels like the most straightforward way is to use an alias like this: `email = email --flag foobar`
But the hgrc man page says that


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