[MPlayer-dev-eng] RFC: standard naming convention for patches

[pl]

On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 07:42:25PM +0100, Felix Buenemann wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> as we get quite many patches, it would be a good idea to have a standard 
> naming convention for it that we could put to the docs. I would like 
> something like:
>   yyyymmddxx-developer-description.patch
> 
> example: 2001112901-santa-claus-mplayer-x-mas-patch-0.1.patch
> 
> This would make it much easier to see which patches are newer and in what 
> order to apply them.
> 
> What do you think?
[...]

I would not use '-' in developer & description, if it ever needs being
parsed it will be easier... :)
Besides version xx is redundant with the patch version/description.

Something matching [0-9]{8}-*-*-*.patch :
  20011224-santa_claus-mplayer_x_mas-0.1.patch

My today's $0.02 :)
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Best regards,
  pl