[Freeipa-devel] [PATCH] fix memleaks

Rob Crittenden rcritten at redhat.com
Fri Dec 2 14:49:00 UTC 2011


Simo Sorce wrote:
> I lost count of how many patches I handled, and to be honest I think
> this naming convention sucks a bit.
>
> I would be ok changing the number to match a ticket number perhaps, when
> there is a ticket attached to it, but for patches like this one all you
> really-need it to append a -2 at the end if a new revision is necessary.
> Putting arbitrary numbers and names, doesn't make it any easier to
> handle to me.

The numbers can help at commit time when ordering matters. Most of the 
time they are just decorators.

Being able to identify the owner of a patch in the file name is quite 
handy IMHO.

rob




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